AQA GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Explorations in creative reading and writing 2023

Read again the first part of the source, from lines 1 to 6. List four things about hyenas from this part of the source. Look in detail at this extract, from lines 10 to 19 of the source: I am not one to hold a prejudice against any animal, but it is a plain fact that the spotted hyena is not well served by its appearance. It is ugly beyond redemption. Its shaggy, coarse coat is a bungled mix of colours, with the spots having none of the classy ostentation of a leopard’s, they look rather like the symptoms of a skin disease. The head is broad and too massive, with a high forehead, like that of a bear, but suffering from a receding hairline, and with ears that look ridiculously mouse-like, large and round, when they haven’t been torn off in battle. The mouth is forever open and panting. The nostrils are too big. The tail is scraggly and unwagging. All the parts put together look doglike, but like no dog anyone would want as a pet. How does the writer use language here to describe the hyena’s appearance? You could include the writer’s choice of: • words and phrases • language features and techniques • sentence forms. You now need to think about the whole of the source. This text is from the middle of a novel. How has the writer structured the text to interest you as a reader? You could write about: • what the writer focuses your attention on at the beginning of the source • how and why the writer changes this focus as the source develops • any other structural features that interest you.