(Imported) english paper one notes english
english paper one
QUESTION ONE
comprehension skills
objective - based off of fact
subjective - based on personal interpretation
register - formal / informal
intention - persuade/inform/educate and then go into detail and be specific
tone - informative, assertive, humorous
abbreviation - each individual letter is pronounced
acronym - pronounced as a word
QUESTION TWO
summary skills
1. precis
2. paragraph
3. point form
• title
• appropriate register (formal/informal)
• accurate word count (must be precise or you will be penalised)
• extra relevant information
• no statistics
• paraphrase
• ONE paragraph
QUESTION 3
prescribed poetry
tone: how the poet feels
, mood: how the reader feels
• touch
• nobody loses all the time
• mirror
• egypt ozymandias
• remember me
QUESTION 4
unseen poetry
tone - how the poet is feeling whilst writing this
mood - how the poem makes the audience feel
figures of speech
• similes (as/like)
• metaphors (comparison)
• personification
• allusions (references something)
• apostrophe (adressing someone)
• hyperbole
• euphemism
• innuendo
• climax/anti-climax
• puns
• synechdoche (part used to represent whole)
• rhetorical questions
• metonomy (something associated w object represents the object)
• malapropism ( unintentional use of incorrect words)
sound devices:
• onomatopoeia (sounds)
• assonance (repetition of a vowel)
• alliteration (repetition of a consonant)
• rhyme (used for effect)
contradictions:
english paper one
QUESTION ONE
comprehension skills
objective - based off of fact
subjective - based on personal interpretation
register - formal / informal
intention - persuade/inform/educate and then go into detail and be specific
tone - informative, assertive, humorous
abbreviation - each individual letter is pronounced
acronym - pronounced as a word
QUESTION TWO
summary skills
1. precis
2. paragraph
3. point form
• title
• appropriate register (formal/informal)
• accurate word count (must be precise or you will be penalised)
• extra relevant information
• no statistics
• paraphrase
• ONE paragraph
QUESTION 3
prescribed poetry
tone: how the poet feels
, mood: how the reader feels
• touch
• nobody loses all the time
• mirror
• egypt ozymandias
• remember me
QUESTION 4
unseen poetry
tone - how the poet is feeling whilst writing this
mood - how the poem makes the audience feel
figures of speech
• similes (as/like)
• metaphors (comparison)
• personification
• allusions (references something)
• apostrophe (adressing someone)
• hyperbole
• euphemism
• innuendo
• climax/anti-climax
• puns
• synechdoche (part used to represent whole)
• rhetorical questions
• metonomy (something associated w object represents the object)
• malapropism ( unintentional use of incorrect words)
sound devices:
• onomatopoeia (sounds)
• assonance (repetition of a vowel)
• alliteration (repetition of a consonant)
• rhyme (used for effect)
contradictions:
