Language

The words, phrases and grammatical choices a writer uses to create meaning and effects.

A writer’s choices of words and expressions, including their meanings, associations and sounds.

Paper 1 Question 3 is worth 6 marks and assesses AO2: explaining and analysing how a writer’s language and structure create effects and influence readers, using relevant terminology. You examine a specified section of the unseen nineteenth-century fiction extract, rather than writing about the whole passage indiscriminately.

The writer’s choices of words, phrases and grammatical patterns to create meaning and effects.

Cover both language and structure. An answer addressing only one cannot score above 2 marks, however detailed it is.

Develop points about both language and structure: considering only one limits the answer to 6 marks.

Cover both language and structure: an answer on only one is capped at 4 marks.

The words, phrases and techniques a writer uses to create meaning and effects.

Paper 2 Question 4 asks you to explain how the writer of Text 2 interests and engages the reader through language and structure. It is worth 10 marks, all for AO2: understanding how writers’ choices create effects and influence readers, supported by evidence and relevant terminology.

The words and grammatical choices a writer uses to communicate meaning and create effects.

OCR Component 01 Question 3 asks you to explore how the writer of Text 2 uses language and structure to present a particular person, experience or idea. It is worth 12 marks, all for AO2: explaining and analysing the writer’s choices and their effects, using relevant terminology.

The writer’s choices of words, phrases, imagery and grammatical features, which create meaning and effects.

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