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 | 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 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...
by melaniewp | Apr 15, 2013 | AQA, Compass and Torch, Exam Essays, GCSE, Model Essays, Sunlight on the Grass
ATeacherWrites.comThis is an essay written by a lovely person from The Student Room, who agreed to let me post it here. My comments are in italics.+ Moon on the Tides Resources+ Get an essay on Something Old, Something New, here.Question SetHow does the...
by melaniewp | Apr 15, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Key Quotations, Of Mice and Men
The scene opens quietly:‘Only Lennie was in the barn’ with ‘a little dead puppy’.Lennie says: “This ain’t no bad thing like I got to go hide in the brush.” “George ain’t gonna let me tend no rabbits.” He goes between the ideas that George will and won’t care,...
