Comapre Methods in Non Fiction (Paper 2 Question 4)

What this resource includes:

1. Sample question
2. 6 Steps: Just tell me what to do
3. The mark scheme explained
4. Mnemonic for persuasive techniques: MAD FATHERS CROCH
5. 19th century text
6. Original modern text
7. Perfect model answer to teach from, 530 words
8. Perfect model answer annotated and explained
9. How to analyse a writer’s tone
10. How to infer

Here is the beginning of the model answer:
Model Answer

Dominic Salles uses direct address to take the reader on a journey around the city, “as you walk the battlements”. While Salles tours this city, Dickens uses direct address to take the reader to the centre of Greenwich fair, “imagine yourself… in the very centre and heart of the fair.”

Both writers therefore experience the city on foot. This metaphor, and the positive connotations of “heart”, imply that the fair will be a joyous experience. Salles begins with similar praise, using the hyperbole of the reader “gasping at the beauty of the town.” However, Salles takes the reader on a series of experiences which will make the reader wish to leave.

Thus the alliteration of “cramped and crowded” lanes emphasises how little you might enjoy walking the streets. He uses the threatening simile of tourists “swarming like locusts” to convey his horror at being trapped in the crowds.

In contrast, Dickens celebrates being in “an extremely dense crowd”, using language from the semantic field of play, so that the crowd “swings you to and fro” like a game, before delivering you to the “centre”.