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Improving Close Reading Answers

Improving Close Reading Answers. Learning Intention Look at the types of question tripping you up, from the 2006 Credit paper, and learn ‘what the marker is looking for.’. In your OWN words. When do they want you to quote?. Why do you think...? Which word...? Explain fully...

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Improving Close Reading Answers

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  1. Improving Close Reading Answers Learning Intention Look at the types of question tripping you up, from the 2006 Credit paper, and learn ‘what the marker is looking for.’

  2. In your OWN words...

  3. When do they want you to quote? • Why do you think...? • Which word...? • Explain fully... • Find an expression... • How does the writer... • Write down the word.... • Which expression...? • By close reference to the text...?

  4. In your own words, what is the writer’s attitude to the various goods for sale in the hotel lobby? As we walked up tot he main lobby there was ‘Vampire’ red wine for sale, glass vials of red liquid, wooden stakes and probably some garlic stashed under the counter. As these tacky souvenirs revealed, it wasn’t the real Dracula’s castle but Hotel Castel Dracula, a three-star hotel built in the mountains to service some of the nearby ski slopes.

  5. In your own words, what is the writer’s opinion of the setting of the hotel? The architecture (1980s mock castle) reflected the Dracula movies but the setting amid the dramatic scenery of the Tihuta pass is stunning. The ‘castle’ is circled by bats every night and the surrounding forests have more wild bears and wolves than anywhere else in Europe.

  6. Sentence Structure • WORD ORDER • SENTENCE LENGTH • PUNCTUATION • LISTS • REPETITION • (Type of sentence)

  7. Why does the writer use a colon? At the last corner before the school’s street they both halted in an accustomed way and he squatted down to give her a kiss. She didn’t mind the ritual but not outside the gates: her pals might see and that would be too embarrassing.

  8. Explain how the one-sentence paragraph is an effective link between the paragraphs before and after. His father looked at the sweating horse, and after a pause he said that he would be alright. Howard could see he knew the berries weren’t ready yet, like the ones behind the steadying that they always picked; and he understood that this was a lesson being set up for him when he came home without brambles: not to tell lies. And there’d be another lesson behind this one, the real lesson: that his father had been right about that sort of new fangled nonsense coming of grief. In spite of this, he forgot it all and slipped through the racecourse fence.

  9. Poetic Techniques • Simile- When you compare one thing to something else using the words ‘as’ or ‘like’. • Alliteration- When the first letter of the words are the same. • Personification- When make something which isn’t human sound human. • Onomatopoeia- A word which sounds like the noise it makes. • Sibilance- Words characterized by, or producing a hissing sound like that of (s) or (sh) • Assonance- Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words • Metaphor- A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as.

  10. Explain how effective you find the simile in this extract. It was easy standing here to recall the bustle of business life. It came to him how much he wanted it, that activity. It was more than just something you did to make money: It was the only life he knew and he was missing out on it, standing on the sidelines like a face in the crowd at a football game.

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