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Analysing language and imagery (AO2) · GCSE English Literature · Courselo

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Core literary skills: the assessment objectives

Analysing language and imagery (AO2)

Core literary skills: the assessment objectives · Lesson 1 of 5

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Unit 1

Core literary skills: the assessment objectives

5 lessons · 5 h 40 min of study

Analysing language and imagery (AO2)Reading · 0%
Form and structure (AO2)1 h 15 min of study
Context, writers’ purposes and interpretations (AO3)1 h of study
Critical essay writing and argument (AO1)1 h 30 min of study
Spelling, punctuation and grammar (AO4)40 min of study

This unit is ≈12% of the GCSE English Lit, across 5 lessons. Full syllabus

Lesson 1 of 5 · Core literary skills: the assessment objectives

Analysing language and imagery (AO2)

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By the end you’ll be able to

Identify and analyse the effects of diction, connotation, imagery (metaphor, simile, personification, symbolism, motifs), sound (alliteration, sibilance, plosives, assonance) and rhetorical techniques
Use subject terminology accurately and only where it supports a point about meaning
Zoom in on single words and phrases and explore more than one interpretation (“this could suggest…”, “alternatively…”)

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Link each method to the writer’s purpose and the effect on the reader or audience, rather than simply naming the device

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