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    The document discusses how writers can affect readers through their use of language. Writers can convey ideas, sensory impressions, and emotions that influence readers intellectually, imaginatively, and emotionally. Individual words have literal meanings but also shades of meaning impacted by context. Writers achieve various effects through vocabulary, imagery, syntax, and other language choices that impact interpretation and how readers perceive ideas, life, and themselves. When analyzing writing, responses should select impactful words and phrases, explain their connotations and the effects they have on readers.

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    The document discusses how writers can affect readers through their use of language. Writers can convey ideas, sensory impressions, and emotions that influence readers intellectually, imaginatively, and emotionally. Individual words have literal meanings but also shades of meaning impacted by context. Writers achieve various effects through vocabulary, imagery, syntax, and other language choices that impact interpretation and how readers perceive ideas, life, and themselves. When analyzing writing, responses should select impactful words and phrases, explain their connotations and the effects they have on readers.

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    The document discusses how writers can affect readers through their use of language. Writers can convey ideas, sensory impressions, and emotions that influence readers intellectually, imaginatively, and emotionally. Individual words have literal meanings but also shades of meaning impacted by context. Writers achieve various effects through vocabulary, imagery, syntax, and other language choices that impact interpretation and how readers perceive ideas, life, and themselves. When analyzing writing, responses should select impactful words and phrases, explain their connotations and the effects they have on readers.

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    Writer’s Effects

    How can a writer’s use of language affect


    readers?
    • Intellectually—conveying ideas/impressions/suggestions to readers
    • Imaginatively—by conveying sensory impressions to readers
    • Emotionally—by creating feelings of anger, pity, suspense etc. in
    readers.
    • Aesthetically—by appealing to the reader’s sense of beauty
    • Physically—consider horror etc.
    • Transformational—affecting the reader’s perception of life
    So….
    • Words have a literal meaning (dictionary definition )
    • They have shades of meaning (thin, slim, skeletal)
    • Words can be modified by context
    • Does the word red operate differently in the following contexts?
    • Valentine’s day (Her room was filled with red roses)
    • Two people fighting (He saw red when Adrian smiled at him….)
    • Some words have sensory associations (bright, pungent etc.)
    • Words are used for their emotional associations
    • The student’s shoulders drooped as he dragged his satchel to the school
    gates. His shoulders slumped when his class teacher said, “Welcome back!”
    In terms of the exam….
    • Text C is used for Sections 2 AND 3
    • For the longer writer’s effect question you will be asked to focus on
    specific aspects of specific paragraphs.
    • Consider the overall effect of the paragraph
    • Look for imagery first
    • Phrases should be relatively short (3-4 words in length)
    • Focus on the effect. Do not merely describe what the sentence
    means!
    Assessment objectives met
    • This question tests reading assessment objectives R1, R2 and R4 (25
    marks):
    • R1 demonstrate understanding of explicit meanings
    R2 demonstrate understanding of implicit meanings and attitudes
    R4 demonstrate understanding of how writers achieve effects and
    influence reader
    Skills addressed
    • To recognize, understand and explain the meaning of a range of
    vocabulary and imagery
    • To demonstrate an awareness of connotations of words
    • To articulate an understanding of how language choices can impact
    the interpretation of a text
    From the Mark scheme…
    • This question is marked for the ability to select powerful or unusual
    words and for an understanding of ways in which the language is
    effective. Expect responses to provide words / phrases that carry
    connotations additional to general meaning.
    From the Mark Scheme
    • Mark holistically for the overall quality of the response, not for the
    number of words chosen, bearing in mind that for the higher bands
    there should be a range of choices to demonstrate an understanding
    of how language works, and that this should include the ability to
    explain images. It is the quality of the analysis that attracts marks. Do
    not deduct marks for inaccurate statements; simply ignore them.
    From the Mark Scheme
    • The following notes are a guide to what good responses might say
    about the selections. Candidates can make any sensible comment, but
    only credit those that are relevant to the correct meanings of the
    words in the context and that have some validity. Alternative
    acceptable explanations should be credited. Credit comments on
    effects created by non-vocabulary choices such as grammar / syntax
    and punctuation devices. These must be additional to comments on
    vocabulary.
    What to choose
    • Imagery
    • Sensory imagery (visual, olfactory, auditory, tactile, gustatory etc.)
    • Metaphor
    • Simile

    Aural effects (alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia etc.)


    Interesting word choices (words that convey emotion, have shades of meaning
    etc.)
    Syntax /Grammar
    Punctuation
    Writer’s effects: advice
    • Overview of effect for the entire paragraph
    • First pick imagery from each paragraph.
    • Choose a range of words/phrases that seem powerful. Do not write out
    whole sentences.
    • Put quotation marks around your choices.
    • Treat each of your choices separately
    • Avoid general comments like” this is a powerful phrase.”
    • To explain effect think of what the reader sees and feels as they read the
    word/phrase, due to the connotations of language. There can be more than
    one related effect.
    It should look like this
    • Overview of overall effect
    • Phrase+ technique*+meaning+ effect
    • Repeat twice more.

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