RUAE Flashcards
What are the steps to answering an in your own words question?
-Find the relevant lines in the passage and highlight them
-Put the lines/ideas into your own words
-Check you’ve given sufficient detail for the number of marks available
-Go back and double check you’ve not copied anything from the passage
What are the steps to answering a word choice question?
-Find the relevant lines in the passage and highlight them
-Explain the connotations of the words from the chosen quotes
-use TEA to analyse the quote
-Explain why the word choice is effective and how it helps our understanding of the passage
What are the steps to answering an imagery question
-find the relevant lines in the passage and highlight them
-explain the connotations from the chosen quotes
-use TEA to analyse the quote
-say what the comparison adds to the readers understanding
-analyse the decoration and connotation of the imagery
-quote the phrase from the lines selected
Writers language is
Tone, sentence structure and imagery
What is TEA
Technique, evidence and analysis
How is an introduction effective?
- makes the topic of the article clear
- engages the reader through the use of language
- makes the writers point of view clear
How is a conclusion effective?
- repeats an idea from earlier in the passage
- refers back to an idea from earlier in the passage
- reinforces an idea from earlier in the passage
How do you answer a link question?
- quote a word or phrase from the linking sentence
- state explicitly (in ur own words as much as possible) what idea this links back to in the previous paragraph or section in the passage
- state explicitly (in ur own words as much as possible) what idea this links forward to in the previous paragraph or section in the passage
What are the steps to answering a tone question
- identify the tone
- explain why the word choice/phrase is effective and how it answers the question
- quote the phrase from the lines selected
how is the writer expressing the self in the introduction/conclusion
What does the how indicate the question is asking
It’s asking for technique
what is the introduction/conclusion saying, in relation to the ideas of the whole passage
What is the what asking for in that question
It’s asking for your own words
What do rhetorical questions do?
Makes the reader think
What does it make them think about?
What do short sentences or minor sentences do?
They’re for dramatic effect. Attention grabbing! Sometimes abrupt at the end of a paragraph to emphasise the key idea
What do single sentence paragraphs do?
Dramatic effect! Attention grabbing and helps emphasis a key idea
What does the use of 2nd person do?
Directly addresses the reader to engage them effectively
