SAMPLE TEXT ANALYSIS OF BURNING LIGHTS BY BELLA CHAGALL (DESCRIPTIVE): CAIE AS ENGLISH LANG (9093)

This resource contains a sample answer for the **TEXT ANALYSIS **question on Paper 1 of the CIE AS English Language (9093) syllabus. The text being analysed is:

An extract from the memoir ‘Burning Lights’ by Bella Chagall.

Due to copyright reasons, a copy of the text has not been provided. However, the text is available:

In the Cambridge International As and A Level English Language Coursebook
by Mike Gould and Marilyn Rankin.

Excerpt from the text analysis response:
The text is a memoir by Bella Chagall written for an intended audience of her fans and other readers of literary non-fiction. In keeping with the conventions of the form the writer uses the first person point of view ‘I’ in order to describe an important experience and evoke an important space from her childhood, thereby creating a personal tone and drawing the reader closer to the experience. The writer also uses the present tense to create a sense of
immediacy and allow the reader to explore the shop with her. She writes in the voice of her younger self to capture the child-like sense of wonder that she felt in that moment and add greater authenticity to the text.

One purpose of the text is to describe the store itself. This is done through the use of the spatial structure which follows her movement from the door of the apartment to the back store and then to the front store, thereby allowing the reader to imagine the…

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