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...
by melaniewp | Apr 17, 2013 | A-Level, A-Level English, Angela Carter, AQA Lit B, Macbeth, Narrative, The Bloody Chamber, The Gothic, Wuthering Heights
Here some essay titles on the Gothic, for Macbeth, The Bloody Chamber and Wuthering Heights for AQA A-Level Lit B. Here are my thoughts…First Essay Title:The Gothic is a male genre which either excludes women or presents them negatively. Discuss.The...
by melaniewp | Apr 16, 2013 | AQA, English Language Exam, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, OCR
How do the presentational features and language get across the important message of both texts?Analysis of Climate Change webpage by Greenpeace and ‘Climate Change: The Facts’ First, I’m going to do FAT-P to show what they have in common and what’s different, to...
