Edexcel GCSE English Language · 1EN0
Paper 1
- Revise: Ideas from a prompt or an image
The distinctive personality or perspective conveyed by a narrator’s language and observations.
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GCSE English Language · key term
The distinctive personality of a narrator conveyed through their language, observations and attitudes.
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Paper 1
The distinctive personality or perspective conveyed by a narrator’s language and observations.
Paper 1, Paper 2
The voice that tells a story or recounts events.
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The narrative voice is the voice recounting events. First-person narration uses ‘I’ or ‘we’; third-person narration refers to people as ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘they’ or by name.
The voice through which a story or account is told. A first-person narrator uses ‘I’ or ‘we’; a third-person narrator refers to characters as ‘he’, ‘she’ or ‘they’.
The perspective and voice through which events are told.
The voice through which a story is told, including the perspective from which events and characters are presented.
The voice telling a story or account. It may be the writer’s own voice in literary non-fiction or a created narrator in fiction.
The voice through which a text is told. First-person narration uses forms such as ‘I’ or ‘we’; third-person narration uses forms such as ‘he’, ‘she’ or ‘they’.
Paper 2
A narrator’s distinctive way of telling a story, created through vocabulary, sentence patterns and attitudes.
Revise: Writing a story from a titleThose choices support AO5, because they shape the reader’s response and establish a controlled narrative voice. The precise vocabulary and varied, accurately punctuated sentences support AO6. No individual phrase earns a fixed number of marks: the examiner judges the quality of the whole response.