EL P2 Language Use for Impact Lecture

LANGUAGE USE FOR IMPACT NARRATIVE PACKAGE 2020

SUPPORT YOUR IDEAS WITH DETAILS FROM THE PASSAGE Language Use for Impact can be defined as • the use of language • to affect the readers‘ thoughts and feelings about the subject in the passage. • The writer chooses very specific vocabulary and figurative language to lead the readers towards the main idea that they want to convey in the story about the place or the people. • It can be used to create an atmosphere that would provoke an emotional reaction in the reader.

TAKE NOTE: • Explanations must be differentiated and should not be repeated in slightly varying words addressing the requirements found in the question. • Explanations should show what the 3 phrases imply precisely and distinctly.

STRATEGIES 1. Read the question 2. Underline/Circle the keywords 3. Locate the answer from the text (vocabulary or figurative language) 4. “Support your ideas with three details” – Quote from text 5. “Explain how the language used makes…..” – Explain the quotes individually.

EXAMPLE FROM SPECIMEN PAPER TEXT 2 When we arrived at last I was helped down from the carriage at the age of three; and there, with a sense of bewilderment and terror, my life in the country began. The grass amongst which I stood was taller than I was. I had never been so close to grass before. It towered over me and all around me, each blade tattooed with tiger-skins of sunlight. It was knife- edged, dark and a wicked green, thick as a forest and alive with grasshoppers that chirped and chattered and leapt through the air like monkeys.

QUESTION • 5. At the beginning of this text three-year-old Laurie Lee was lost in the tall grass. Explain how the language used in paragraph 2 makes the grass appear threatening. • Support your ideas with three details from paragraph 2. (3) • Meaning of threatening: having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner.

EXAMPLE FROM SPECIMEN PAPER TEXT 2 When we arrived at last I was helped down from the carriage at the age of three; and there, with a sense of bewilderment and terror, my life in the country began. The grass amongst which I stood was taller than I was. I had never been so close to grass before. It towered over me and all around me, each blade tattooed with tiger-skins of sunlight. It was knife- edged, dark and a wicked green, thick as a forest and alive with grasshoppers that chirped and chattered and leapt through the air like monkeys.

3 details Explain how it makes grass appear threatening ‘it towered over me’ suggests how small /vulnerable he feels ‘each blade tattooed with tiger- skins’ suggests frightening pictures/wild animals ‘knife-edged’ suggests the grass is sharp and harmful

other details Explain how it makes grass appear threatening ‘a wicked green’ suggests evil/cruelty ‘thick as a forest’ suggests impenetrable/inescapable ‘alive with grasshoppers…like monkeys’ suggests the grass is full of things/creatures that can attack him

1. The beginning of this text describes the children’s reactions about their father’s return home. 2. Explain how the language used in Paragraph 5 emphasises their reactions. Support your ideas with three details from Paragraph 5. 1. Ravi was exasperated/annoyed/tired/fed up with his father as ‘he sighed under his breath’. 2. Ravi was angry/furious/had lots of built-up anger/wanted to confront his father as he ‘had to muster all his self-control in order not to storm outside and give his father a piece of his mind’. 3.Ravi expected/anticipated to hear his father beating his mother as ‘Ravi waited to hear the usual sounds of beating and shouting’.