by melaniewp | Apr 18, 2013 | 11+, A-Level, Common Entrance, GCSE, How to Write an Essay, IGCSE, KS3
A student explained today that she had a problem. Maybe it’s one that you have too. When writing about a text – novel or poem, or play, she kept repeating the phrase ‘this creates a feel of’, or ‘this suggests’.We figured out there...
by melaniewp | Apr 18, 2013 | Birthday, Christina Rosetti, Edexcel Lnguage Anthology, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Poetry
Essay TitleIn ‘Remember’, how does Christina Rossetti use language and structure to get across the theme?On the surface, ‘Remember’ is all about death. The poem is written in the second person, evoking a relationship of some kind – of ‘you’ and ‘me’. But is ‘me’...
by melaniewp | Apr 18, 2013 | Edexcel Language Anthology, Exam Essays, IGCSE, Model Essays
This essay comes to you thanks to Sofia, who wrote this beautiful, super detailed analysis of one of the most boring texts in the Anthology. Thanks, Sofia!Essay Title:How does the writer use presentational features, structure and language to create an effect on the...
by melaniewp | Apr 18, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Poetry
This is the start of an essay, using STILTS to analyse Alice Walker’s poem about her father.Essay Question:How does the writer uses language and structure to get across the theme of the poem?The first paragraph explains the SUBJECT thoroughly, then a brief bit...
by melaniewp | Apr 18, 2013 | Controlled Assessment, English Language, GCSE, Spoken Language, Technical Terms
*Pragmatics is the context of the message – e.g. age of participants, relative status, locations, job, hobbies etc.*Prosodic features – elements which mimic spoken language, e.g. sounds like: grr, urr (eurgh), er, mmm*Idiolect – the distinctive way that an individual...
