Language And Structure Techniques

Question 1

10 or more Structural Features

Answer 1

• Openings
• Focus
• Shifts
• Contrast
• Pace
• Repitition
• Temporal References
• Order of Events
• Endings
• Witholding Information
• Dialogue
• Headings/Subheadings
• Sentence Structures
• Paragraph Lengths (Speech Time)
• Dramatic Irony

Question 2

Good Adverbs to use when describing ‘Why’ the writer has done something:

Answer 2

• Obviously
• Conspicuously
• Deliberatly
• Clearly
• Subtly
• Activly
• Effectively
• Cleverly
• Purposly
• Intentionally
• Consequently
• Continuously

Question 3

The 4 Sentence Structures

Answer 3

Exclamatory: To exclaim something - To show suprise/anger

Interrogative: To auestion/interrogate someone - To ask something, rhetorically auestion something and to find pur information

Declaritive: To make a statement, or just to say something- To show somone declaring something (if a person uses lots of declaritive sentences they could like the sound of their own voice)

Imperitive: Shows a command, tells someone to do something - To show power to the speaker, making them authoritive

Question 4

The 8 Language Features (+Their effect)

Answer 4

• Similies: Describes + amplfies a characteristic/physical appearance
• Onomatopoeia: Aids the reader to apprixiate the noise + effect it causes to a character
• Alliteration: Shifts the focus to that part of the sentence
• Personification: Increases the significance/power of an inanimate object
• Senses: Allows understanding and gives a bit more depth and perspective, while it also increases the engagement and shows extremities
• Metaphor: Describes a character/physical apperance, and is a more subtle comparison but is continued throughout a piece of text.
• Emotive Language: This provokes a strong emotion/reaction from the reader (persuading them towards your view)
• Hyperboles: These show the ferocity/impact of an action