1. Making the Unfamiliar- FAMILIAR Miss Lawrie’s Tips for SUCCESS

2. What is it asking you to do? Decide on the PURPOSE of the text Analyse the IDEAS the text is PRESENTING Analyse the LANGUAGE FEATURES of the text Discuss the EFFECTS of the IDEAS and LANGUAGE FEATURES

3. Miss Lawrie’s Tips Manage your time carefully. The examination states that 60 mins is allocated for answering this Achievement standard. This means that you should spend approximately fifteen mins on each text. Read the text 2 or 3 times!!! Use the focus words that are in BOLD TYPE. This is one of the most important parts in answering the question. Your answers must ALWAYS be clearly supported with evidence from the text you are referring to. Have a look at all of the questions and answer the ones that you feel the MOST confident with FIRST.

4. The four types of texts Oral Language- might be a piece of speech, drama script, transcript of a conversation Written Text (Prose)- might be a persuasive or journalistic piece of text. Written Text (Poetic)- might include a poem or a descriptive prose. Poetic, expressive or imaginative writing. Visual Text- might be a poster or an advertisement

5. Describing Effects There is no specific way to describe effects of techniques or language features. The main reason for this is that each text has particular characteristics of its own. This is why it is important that you learn to think about the text as a whole, and about the message it is designed to convey. An Example of a correct description : “ The adjectives “uncool”, “extravagent” and “awkward, slimy and squishy” help us to see how uncomfortable the wearer felt in the coat. Also because “uncool” is a colloquial word often used by teenagers, we imagine that the wearer was a teenager,’

6. Language Features you need to be confident with… (We will make flash cards on Friday with these features so that you can know them off by heart) Allusion Anecdote Emphasis Hyperbole Imperative Parallel structure Personal pronouns Repetition Rhetorical question Emotive language Jargon Syntax Alliteration Assonance Colloquial Language Enjambment Metaphor Simile Stanza Connotation Composition Contrast Dominant Image Personification Cliché Onomatopoeia

7. Added extra to HELP… NCEA Study It website

8. Practice your techniques “The clothes hung limply waiting.” Feature:……………………………………. Possible text Type:……………………….. Effect:…………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………. “Act now!” Feature:………………………………………………. Possible text type:…………………………………… Effect:…………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………..