1. QUESTIONS 2 & 4 ‘HOW’ QUESTIONS

2. 5 MARKS
10 MARKS

3. ADJECTIVES VERBS WORD CHOICE ADVERBS DAFOREST
EXAGGERATION (DOESN’T NEED TO BE HYPERBOLE)
HOW IT STARTS/ENDS
PUNCTUATION
SENSORY LANGUAGE
FIG LANG (SIMILES, METAPHOR, PERSONIFICATION, ONO ETC.)

4. HOW MANY QUOTES DO YOU NEED TO USE?
5 MARK QUESTION = 3-5 QUOTES
10 MARK QUESTION = 7-10 QUOTES

5. YOU NEED TO USE A ‘RANGE OF QUOTES.’
FROM THE BEGINNING, MIDDLE & END OF THE EXTRACT

6. What does analyse means…?
In the ‘HOW’ question, you need to analyse the writer’s use of language.
It means to examine something carefully and in detail. Then explain and interpret it.
What does analyse means…?

7. How does the writer make these lines tense & dramatic?

8. LOOK FOR LANGUAGE THAT MAKES THE STORY SEEM TENSE AND DRAMATIC.

9. SOUNDS LIKE A DANGEROUS JOB
VERB – CRIME
SOUNDS LIKE A DANGEROUS JOB

10. THE WRITER USES THE VOYEURISTIC VERB TO CREATE TENSION WITH ‘WITNESSED’. ‘Witness’ suggests something criminal has happened.

11. Q2

14. LOOK FOR LANGUAGE THAT SHOWS HOW PAT FEELS ABOUT THE FLAT.
5 MARKS = 5 QUOTES

15. YOU DO NOT NEED TO GO INTO TOO MUCH DETAIL IN YOUR EXPLANATION ON THE 5 MARK QUESTION.

17. THE WRITER USES THE ADJECTIVE ‘ENCOURAGING’ TO SHOW PAT IS PLEASED TO MEET BRUCE.

18. THE WRITER USES THE ADJECTIVE ‘ENCOURAGING’ TO SHOW PAT IS PLEASED TO MEET BRUCE.
SHE USES DIALOGUE TO SAY SHE LIKES ‘THE STREET’, ‘THE PART OF TOWN’ AND THAT IT ‘SEEMS QUIET.’ THIS SUGGESTS SHE LIKES A LOT ABOUT THE FLAT BEFORE SHE HAS EVEN SEEN IT.
HOWEVER, SHE USES THE ADJECTIVE ‘RICKETY’ TO DESCRIBE THE BOOKCASE WHICH SUGGESTS SHE THINK IT’S OLD.
SHE USES THE NOUN ‘DISTASTE’ TO SHOW SHE THINKS THE SOFA IS HORRIBLE.
SHE ALSO THINKS THE SOFA HAS BEEN ‘BATTERED AND HUMILIATED.’ THESE VERBS SUGGESTS THE SOFA HAS SUFFERED YEARS OF ABUSE.
SHE THINKS THE SOFA CONTAINS LOTS OF HIDDEN THINGS FROM PREVIOUS PREOPLE, ‘OTHER BITS AND PIECES.’

20. Q4

21. 10 MARKS = 10 QUOTES

22. 1) USE THE SENTENCE STARTER,
THE WRITER USES…

23. 2) USE ADJECTIVE + TECHNIQUE
THE WRITER USES THE POWERFUL NOUN…
THE WRITER USES THE PEACEFUL SIMILE…
THE WRITER USES THE VIOLENT VERB…
THE WRITER USES THE VOYEURISTIC VERB…

24. THE WRITER USES THE VOYEURISTIC VERB TO CREATE TENSION...
3) TO SHOW...
THE WRITER USES THE VOYEURISTIC VERB TO CREATE TENSION...

25. 4) QUOTE
THE WRITER USES THE VOYEURISTIC VERB TO CREATE TENSION WITH ‘WITNESSED’.

26. 5) CONNOTATION OF CHOSEN WORD
THE WRITER USES THE VOYEURISTIC VERB TO CREATE TENSION WITH ‘WITNESSED”.
‘Witness’ suggests something criminal has happened and that Obed can only stand and watch.

27. LOOK FOR LANGUAGE THAT SHOWS WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT EACH OTHER.

28. THE WRITER USES SAYS THE ROOM IS ‘NOT CHEAP’ TO SUGGEST SHE THINKS BRUCE IS CHARGING HER TOO MUCH FOR THE ROOM.
THE WRITER USES THE ADVERB ‘TENTATIVELY’ TO SUGGEST BRUCE FEELS ANXIOUS ABOUT ASKING PAT FOR THE RENT.

29. THE WRITER USES SAYS THE ROOM IS ‘NOT CHEAP’ TO SUGGEST SHE THINKS BRUCE IS CHARGING HER TOO MUCH FOR THE ROOM.
THE WRITER USES THE ADVERB ‘TENTATIVELY’ TO SUGGEST BRUCE FEELS ANXIOUS ABOUT ASKING PAT FOR THE RENT.
THE WRITER USES THE VERB ‘RELAXED’ TO SHOW BRUCE FEELS AT EASE ONCE PAT SAYS SHE WILL ‘PAY IN ADVANCE.’
THEY BOTH ‘SMILE’ WHICH SUGGESTS THEY ARE COMFORTABLE WITH EACH OTHER.
THE WRITER TELLS US THAT PAT THINKS ‘BRUCE SEEMED FINE’ AND REMINDED HER OF AN ‘UNTHREATENING’ COUSIN. THIS ADJECTIVE SUGGESTS SHE DOESN’T FEEL INTIMIDATED BY BRUCE.

30. PAT DESCRIBES HIM AS ‘GOOD LOOKING’ AND THE READER FEELS SHE IS ATTRACTED TO HIM DESPITE HER SAYING SHE WOULDN’T BECOME INVOLVED WITH ‘SOMEONE LIKE THAT.’
THE WRITER USES THE NOUN ‘GIRL’ TO SUGGEST BRUCE SEES HER AS IMMATURE AND THAT HE IS IN CONTROL.
BRUCE SAYS THE AGE GAP MIGHT BE ‘A PROBLEM’ AND ‘CRUCIAL.’ THIS ADJECTIVE SUGGESTS BRUCE THINKS THE AGE GAP MIGHT BE THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR IN A SUCCESSFUL STAY IN THE FLAT FOR PAT. ALTHOUGH HE COULD MEAN ROMANTICALLY TOO.
THE WRITER USES SHORT SENTENCES WITH ADJECTIVES TO SHOW BRUCE DOESN’T THINK PAT IS SPECIAL ENOUGH FOR HIS ATTENTION, ‘COMFORTABLE...UNDISTURBING. AVERAGE.’ THE USES THE VERB ‘REFLECTED’ TO SHOW BRUCE IS REALLY MULLING OVER PAT HAS A POTENTIAL PARTNER.