Linguistic Elements and Literary Features of Texts

Worked examples (6)

• 1Word classes — the parts of speech and their sub-types
• 2Sentence FUNCTIONS — declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamative
• 3Sentence TYPES — simple, compound, complex, compound-complex, minor
• 4Tense, aspect, mood and MODALITY
• 5Active and passive VOICE — and agent deletion
• 6Word order, fronting, end-focus, parallelism and cohesion

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 1 skill drill — word classes and effect
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 1 skill drill — sentence types and functions
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 1 text-analysis style
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 1 Q1(b) comparison style
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 1 Q2 text-analysis style
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 2 reflective commentary style

Worked examples (6)

• 1Figurative language — metaphor, simile, personification (and analysing effect)
• 2Imagery and the five senses — visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory
• 3The three ironies — verbal, dramatic, situational
• 4Sound devices — alliteration, sibilance, assonance, onomatopoeia, plosives
• 5Rhetorical devices, allusion, symbolism and motif
• 6Comparing how two texts use devices (Paper 1 Q1b method)

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 1 Section A, directed-response style
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 1 text-comparison style
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 1 text-analysis style
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 1 text-analysis style
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 2 Section A, reflective commentary
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 2 Section B, extended writing

Worked examples (6)

• 1Get the topic right first — situational variation, NOT historical change
• 2Place a text on the formality cline — and justify it
• 3Apply Halliday's field, tenor and mode (taught simply)
• 4Express the SAME content for two different situations
• 5Analyse HOW a text is shaped by its context and audience (Paper 1 Q2)
• 6Analyse MODE — spoken, written and digital language

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 2 short-writing style
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 1 short-analysis style
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 1 text-analysis style
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 1 Section A, comparison task
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 2 Section A, short writing
• ✓Model answer — 9093 Paper 2 Section A, reflective commentary