Component 02 Question 3: language and structure in a longer section

Component 02 Question 3 (12 marks, AO2) on a longer section of Text 2: exploring how the writer uses language and structure to describe a character, a place or an experience, with relevant subject terminology.
Reading the whole section before writing, working through it in order, and giving an overview of how the writer shapes the reader's response, which marks out the top-level answers.
The worked example uses two linked stories of fear in a dark house at night, both printed in the lesson: Text 1, the ending of W. W. Jacobs's story 'The Monkey's Paw' (1902), and Text 2, from Algernon Blackwood's story 'The Empty House' (1906).
What separates the levels, in our own words, and a model answer with the level and mark an examiner would give, and why.
A weaker and a stronger answer to the same task side by side, with what lifts the weaker one to the next level.
Sentence starters for the question and a short checklist of the steps, for students aiming at Grade 4 and above.

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