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- 1Using your own wordsMany of the exam questions will ask you to use your own words. It is the most key and basic skill in all of close reading. If you can put something in your own words, you have understood it; if you do not understand something, you will not be able to express it in your own words.
Using your own words means you may have to:
Explain what a word or expression in the passage means. Explain the main point the writer is making. Give the reason for something that happens in the passage
Show that you understand a piece of information the passage gives. - 2Context QuestionsYou may be asked to work out from the context what a word or expression
means. In these cases, the examiners think that you may not know the
given word, but that you should be able to work it out from what surrounds it in the passage. - 3Imagery QuestionsWriters use images to strengthen what they say by putting all sorts of
pictures in the reader’s mind. Imagery is not the same as description. A
description tells us what something is like. An image shows that one thing
is somehow like another. The comparison tells us more about the thing
that is being compared. Similes, metaphors and personification are all
different sorts of image, though most of the images you will be asked about
will be metaphors.
There is a method for analysing images. You begin with what the image
literally is like, or literally means.
Then you go on to the metaphorical meaning, showing how that image applies to and adds meaning to the subject under discussion. - 4Quote Find the correct lines.
Check whether the question
asks for a word or phrase.
Write down exactly as it is in
passage. - 5Summarise Identify the key points/issues from
the relevant section.
Change these points into your own
words.
Bullet point if appropriate.
Check the marks available as a
guide to how many points you are
required to summarise. - 6LinkQuote words from the link
sentence which refer back to the
previous paragraph.
Say what idea from the previous
paragraph it refers to.
Quote words from the link
sentence which link forward to
the previous paragraph.
Say what idea from the next paragraph it refers to. - 7Analysis QuestionThis type of question designed to check you can identify specific literary
techniques being used.
You must also analyse them
(break them down) and evaluate
how they add to the reader’s
understanding of the passage’s meaning. - 8Word ChoiceQuote the word and give its basic meaning. Give the word’s connotations (associated ideas) Explain how the word’s connotations
develop the reader’s understanding
of the passage.
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