English Exam Revision: Exam Skills - How to Analyse a Writer's Language
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0:00 hello and welcome back to tutoring with gavin in this series of videos i'll be showing you different exam skills that are essential for you to get
0:07 a great grade in your english language or literature exam in this video i will explain the top tips on how to analyze the writer's
0:15 language and how the writer uses language to convey meaning and to create effect for the reader one of the most important
0:22 terms you must use when analyzing a writer is the word imagery which is an umbrella term for many literary techniques or
0:29 devices that help writers to create a visual image in the mind of the reader for example a metaphor
0:35 is one of the devices used to create imagery okay tip one to zoom in and out the idea of zooming in and out
0:42 of a text is very useful for understanding what the examiners are asking you to do imagine you have a camera and you want a
0:49 picture of the whole landscape to get an overview of the setting in literary terms this would be the genre the audience and the purpose
0:58 the text you're studying might be a biography aimed at people over 40 years old with the purpose of entertaining and
1:04 informing by understanding this you have zoomed out on the text when you zoom in you are closing in on the finer details of the language and
1:14 literary devices being used to create imagery this is the skill that the exam would want you to prove you can do well tip two a really useful acronym to use
1:24 in the exam is dice which stands for the four skills in the assessment criteria you are being marked on you have to be
1:31 able to identify devices used by the writer to create imagery meaning or an effect on the reader like metaphors or similes you have to
1:38 understand what the writer is inferring by creating this image you have to be able to understand how words or images have connotations which
1:46 creates meaning and you have to be able to explain the effect this has on the reader your job in the exam is to roll the dice
1:53 and provide a clever analysis for example you are given a paragraph to read that has the sentence john exploded with anger you could write
2:01 a concise paragraph like this in the sentence john exploded with anger the writer uses an effective metaphor
2:09 creating dramatic imagery that could reflect his personality the word exploded has connotations of sudden or unexpected
2:16 violence explosions are shocking and have a powerful often negative impact on others therefore the writer could be inferring
2:24 that john's behavior is negative or shocking or that he perhaps has an unpredictable or dangerous impact
2:30 on others the slightest thing could set him off into a rage this creates the effect of anticipation or dramatic tension for
2:38 the reader the language devices you can use could include metaphor simile personification pathetic fallacy
2:46 illusion power of three repetition alliteration symbolism motif rhetorical question hyperbole or superlatives there are many
2:56 more but you can also zoom in on certain dramatic verbs or powerful adjectives or nouns that have different connotations
3:04 like the word blood which could mean an injury or family but could also symbolize passion horror violence life or death
3:12 you can also focus on sentence types simple compound complex minor or sentence functions
3:19 declarative imperative exclamatory interrogative or punctuation exclamation marks hyphens ellipses question mark finally
3:29 you could look at the tone which could include sarcasm irony humor or could be emotive tip 3 use transitional phrases to link
3:37 your different points the writer begins by creating the writer then uses the writer also presents tip 4 keep
3:45 quotations short and try to embed them into your sentences to make them feel seamless in the previous example i wrote the word
3:54 exploded has connotations of sudden or unexpected violence well i hope this has helped in your exam revision if you liked the video please give it a
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