Easter Revision Class

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Easter Revision Class

• Standard Grade English

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The Exam 26th April 2012

• Writing 9am to 1015
• Close Reading
• Foundation 1035?1125
• General 1300?1350
• Credit 1430?1520

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Close Reading
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Revision Material - Flashcards

• Using the information on the following slides,
  gather material for revision flashcards.
• Key words on one side.
• Definition/advice on the other.

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Question Types

• Summary Questions
• in your own words
• find an expression
• Writers attitude/read between the lines

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Advice

• Identify key idea in question. Stick to
  paragraph(s) in bold. Ensure answer is relevant.
  Use bullet points.
• Lift words no marks. Swap for synonym or
  re-phrase.
• Expression ? an entire sentence. Can be one word.
• Consider the tone. Identify key words. Typical
  attitudes sarcastic, nostalgic, aggressive,
  suspicious, enthusiastic, naïve etc.

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Question Types

• Sentence Structure
• What does it suggest
• Show how
• Explain how/ Identify and explain
• How does the writer continue this idea
• Contrast

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Advice

• Look for the following
• Short/long/minor sentences
• Inversion/climax
• Questions/commands/exclamations
• Lists/parenthesis/inverted commas/ellipsis
• Repetition

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Advice

• Consider meaning and then apply in context.
• Quote directly. Dont forget the inverted commas!
• Quote and comment. Look at key words in question.
  Make it clear how passage creates this effect.
  Identify use term.
• Look at quotation given. Identify central idea.
  Look for references and techniques. You may
  quote.
• Opposing ideas. Must be opposites. Two sides must
  be referred to _______ versus _______

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Question Types

• Final questions / How effective
• Consider the effect the writer seems to be aiming
  for. Refer to techniques which create this
  effect.
• Effectiveness of title how well does it sum
  up ideas. Is there a pun?

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Common Features

• Single line paragraphs Often draw attention to
  an idea or create drama/suspense.
• Rhetorical Questions Often used to engage the
  reader.
• You Direct reference to the reader gets them
  involved.
• Switch from Formal to Informal Again, seen to be
  more engaging to read and appealing for us.

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Techniques - Essentials

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Rhyme

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Techniques Good to know

• Pun
• Jargon
• Rhetorical Question
• Juxtaposition
• Paradox
• Informal/Formal Register

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Definitions

• A figure of speech that directly compares two
  different things, usually by employing the words
  "like" or "as.
• A figure of speech in which an implicit
  comparison is made between two unlike things that
  actually have something in common.
• A figure of speech in which an inanimate object
  or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or
  abilities.

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Definitions

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the
  beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
• The use of words that imitate the sounds
  associated with the objects or actions they refer
  to.
• Identity in sound of some part, especially the
  end, of words or lines of verse.

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Writing
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General Advice

• Remember one option only.
• Use words in bold to identify type of writing
  preferred.
• Create a brief mini plan.
• Always keep the task in mind relevance is key.
• Proof read you can be heavily penalised if
  errors hinder reading.

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Style

• Sentence variation length and type.
• Techniques.
• Cyclical structure link ending to beginning.
• Flashback/forward.

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Personal Experience / Reflective writing

• Personal thoughts and feelings.
• Reflection looking back, assessing your own
  behaviour, recognising change.

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Tips

• Title Make sure your title sums up the central
  idea/focus/lesson.
• Show not tell. You felt afraid? Describe location
  in way which makes it seem sinister.
• Be prepared to be critical of yourself. Self
  mocking can be humbling.

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Short Story Writing

• You must develop character, setting AND plot.
• You can write in 1st person or 3rd and you can
  choose to write a flash forward in present tense
  but you must be consistent.
• You must know the rules for presenting dialogue.

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Tip

• Free Indirect Style can be seen in some
  opening lines.
• Rather than reporting thought, it is written as
  if we have a first person narrator but no I
  appears.
• The door bell rang. Another visitor. Someone else
  to feign sympathy, to present the look of concern
  with glassy eyes and half attentive ears. She
  could not bear it. Enough was enough.