Paper 1 - question 5 Flashcards
1
Q
What are the two assessment objectives?
A
- AO5
- write clearly and imaginatively, adapting your tone and style for various purposes and audiences
- organise your writing into a clear structure
- AO6
- use a wide variety of sentance structures and vocabularly, so that your writing is clear and purposeful
- write accurately, paying particular attention to spelling, punctuation and grammar
2
Q
How does the question direct your answer?
A
- gives youu a specific purpose, form and audience
- need to show that you’ve adapted your writing style to match these
3
Q
How should the answer be written?
A
- made as engaging as possible
- using a variety of structural and linguistic features, as well as effected and sophisticated vocabularly
- 6 marks for SPAG
- describe full range of senses
- use figurative language
- use vocabulary to create tone and an atmosphere
- use different sentance types to reflect the tone
4
Q
What is narrative writing?
A
means to write a story
- cover all skills from descriptive writing
- senses
- poetic language
- emotive language
- varied sentance length
- important to be aware of the elements that create a narrative
5
Q
What needs to be done when writing a narrative?
A
- show me, don’t tell me
6
Q
What are some ways to vary a sentance?
A
- beginning a sentence with two adjectives
- to describe subject
- divde the adjectives from the rest of the setence with a comma
- beginning a sentance with a -ing word
- leads to a clause
- tells us more about the setance
- beggining a sentance with a -ly word (adverb)
- detail about how the verb is performed
- comma separates the clauses
7
Q
What is a semicolon used for?
A
- join two sentences thart are of equal importance
- replace a co-ordinating conjunction with a semicolon
- works better than so, and and but
8
Q
What is the other use of a colon?
A
show that the second half of a sentence is more important than the first
