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GCSE English Literature · key term
An explanation of how a writer’s choices create meanings and effects.
Used by AQA and OCR
Paper 1, Paper 2
An explanation of how a writer’s choices create meanings and effects, supported by close attention to evidence.
Close explanation of how a writer’s choices create meanings and effects.
Explain what a method contributes to meaning; identifying a metaphor or imperative alone is not analysis.
Discuss methods beyond individual words: changes within a speech, shared verse, stage action and connections between scenes can all support analysis.
Choose short quotations that allow close analysis. Precise references to events elsewhere in the novel also count as evidence.
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An explanation of how a writer’s choices create particular meanings and effects.
Explaining how a writer’s choices create particular meanings and effects, rather than simply identifying techniques or retelling events.
An explanation of how a writer’s choices create particular meanings and effects, supported by textual evidence.
An explanation of how a writer’s choices create meanings and effects, rather than simply a description of what happens.
Paper 1
An explanation of what a detail in a text means and how the writer’s choices create that meaning.
Revise: Key quotationsTerminology helps when it identifies something meaningful, but naming a metaphor is not itself analysis. Explain what the image makes readers understand and why it matters to the question.
