RUAE Flashcards
In your own words
Question Wording:
- Identify, in your own words as far as possible…
- Explain, in your own words…
- Summarise, in your own words as far as possible…
In your own words
Method:
- Re-read the section of the passage that the question directs you to
- Underline the possible answers
- Check how many points you need to make in your answer
- Bullet point your answer in your own words
Word Choice
Question Wording:
- Explain how two examples of the writer’s word choice make it clear…
- Explain how the writer’s word choice helps to show…
Word Choice
Method:
- Quote an example of the writer’s word choice
- Comment on what the word suggests
- Check that you have answered the question
Imagery
Question Wording:
- Explain fully why the simile/metaphor/personification is effective here…
Imagery
Method:
- Identify the image (if it isn’t given in the question)…
- Use Just as… so too… OR
- Explain in your own words what is suggested by the image…
Sentence Structure
Question Wording:
- Explain how one example of the writer’s sentence structure makes it clear that…
- Explain how one feature of the writer’s sentence structure is used to highlight an important point…
- Choose one of the two rhetorical question…and discuss the effect.
Sentence Structure
Method:
- Identify a feature of sentence structure…
- Explain in your own words why the feature has been used…
Language
Question Wording:
- Explain how two examples of language make it clear that…
- By referring to two language features, explain how the writer makes clear his view about…
- Show fully how examples of the writer’s use of such features of language as word choice or sentence structure helps to convey her ideas effectively…
Language
Method:
- Identify an example of word choice, imagery or a feature of sentence structure…
- Analyse your example as in the guidance above…
Tone
Question Wording:
- Explain with reference to the writer’s use of language how successful you think she has been in achieving a ____ tone…
Tone
Method:
- Identify tone (if it isn’t given)…
- Select an example of word choice, imagery or sentence structure…
- Explain how this example helped to create the tone…
Link
Question Wording:
- By referring to the sentence in lines ___, explain how it helps to provide a link between the writer’s ideas at this point in the passage…
- Explain any way in which the sentences in lines ___ help to provide a link between ideas at this point in the passage…
Link
Method:
- Quote a word or short phrase from the link sentence that you think links back/forward…
- Quote a word or phrase that your selection links back/forward to OR explain in your own words the idea that your selection links back/forward to…
Effective Conclusions
Question Wording:
- Look at lines ___. Select any expression from these lines and explain how it contributes to the passage’s effective conclusion…
- Pick an expression from the final paragraph, and show how it helps to contribute to an effective conclusion to the passage…
Effective Conclusions
Method:
- Quote a word or short phrase from the conclusion that you think links back to earlier in the passage…
- Quote a word, phrase or idea that links back to OR explain in your own words the idea that your selection links back to…
Effective Opening
Question Wording:
- Explain fully why the first paragraph is an effective opening to the passage as a whole…
Effective Opening
Method:
- Identify an idea/theme/tone that has been introduced…
- State the impact this has on the reader…
