RUAE

Question 1

What does RUAE stand for?

Answer 1

Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation.

Question 2

What are some trigger words for understanding questions?

Answer 2

What are the key points…
In your own words…
Summarize
Explain what

Question 3

What are some trigger words for Analysis questions?

Answer 3

With out reference to the features of language used by the writer show how…
Analyse how techniques used by the writer…
How does the word choice/imagery used by the writer…
How is tone created…

Question 4

What are some trigger words for Evaluate questions?

Answer 4

How effective is…

How well…

Question 5

Once you have figured out what the question type is what should you do?

Answer 5

Look at the number of marks.

Question 6

How should you answer an understanding question?

Answer 6

Bullet points, one per mark.

Question 7

What are the 6 different language features?

Answer 7

Sentence structure
Imagery
Word choice
Tone
Linking sentences
Turning point

Question 8

What are the defining features of sentence structure?/what can you talk about with sentence structure?

Answer 8

Short/minor sentences, parenthesis, lists, punctuation.

Question 9

What is imagery?

Answer 9

Metaphors, similes, personification.

Question 10

How can you talk about tone?/What are the talking points?

Answer 10

Sarcastic, humorous, ironic, argumentative, bitter, frustrated…

Question 11

How can you talk about tone?/What are the talking points?

Answer 11

Sarcastic, humorous, ironic, argumentative, bitter, frustrated…

Question 12

What is Alliteration?

Answer 12

Words begining with the same letter/sound.

The rifles rapid rattle.

Question 13

What is hyperbole?

Answer 13

Hyperbole is deliberate use of exaggeration to emphasise a point.
I’m giving it 200 percent!

Question 14

What is onomatopoeia?

Answer 14

Onomatopoeia is when a word makes the sound the word is describing.
Stuttering rifles rapid rattled.

Question 15

What is a simile?

Answer 15

A simile is a comparison.

He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a cake.

Question 16

What is the difference between similes and metaphors?

Answer 16

Similes always use like or as.

Metaphors say something is another.

Question 17

What is a metaphor?

Answer 17

A metaphor is a comparison where one thing is described in terms of something else
His house was now a prison

Question 18

What is pathetic fallacy?

Answer 18

Giving human emotions to non human objects.

Arise, fair sun, and kill envious moon.

Question 19

What is the difference between personification and pathetic fallacy

Answer 19

Personification is any human attribute and pathetic fallacy is always human feelings

Question 20

What is personification?

Answer 20

Personification is a comparison where something non-human is described in human terms.
Death stalked the battlefield.

Question 21

What is sentence structure?

Answer 21

Sentence structure, in context, means how a sentence is built up or constructed.

Question 22

What is repetition?

Answer 22

When single words or groups of words are repeated.

Question 23

What is a list?

Answer 23

A list is a group of items grouped together for a reason.
Carrots, onions, garlic, toilet roll.
A shopping list.
Lists should be easy to understand.

Question 24

What is a retorical question?

Answer 24

A question that is to make a point not an answer.

What time do you call this?

Question 25

What is syntax and inversion?

Answer 25

Syntax/inversion is when the order of a scentance is swamped around.
The cat sat on the mat.
On the mat sat the cat.

Question 26

What are minor sentences?

Answer 26

An incomplete scentance that still makes sense.

No pain, No gain.

Question 27

What is parenthesis?

Answer 27

Adding extra information to a sentence using brackets or commas and still have it make sense with out that added bit