AQA GCSE English Language · 8700
Paper 1, Paper 2
Explaining how particular words, phrases or grammatical choices create meaning and effects in a text.
Revise: Analysing languageLanguage analysis moves beyond identifying what happens to explaining how the writing makes us understand it. A train can simply pass a woman. A writer’s choices can make that same event seem threatening, noisy or humiliating.
- Revise: Paper 1 Question 2: language
Examining how particular choices in a text create meanings and effects, and supporting that explanation with evidence.