English Language Revision Guide

This is a 23 page revision guide I have put together which breaks down all of the word types, linguistic devices, structural devices and evaluative tools that you can use in your GCSE English Language exams. It is highly comprehensive and detailed, and not only teaches you what to look for in your extracts, but how to analyse them.

The sections are:

• What do we mean by language?
• How do we tackle Paper 1 Question 2 and Paper 2 Question 3?
• How do we analyse individual words and groups of words?
• How do we analyse word classes? Verbs and Adverbs, Types of Nouns and Pronouns, Adjectives, Connectives, Prepositions
• How do we analyse sounds?
• How do we analyse sentences? Simple, complex, compound
• How do we analyse punctuation?
• How do we analyse repetition?
• How do we find and analyse literary devices? Metephors and Similes, Juxtaposition, Personification, Euphemism and Dysphemism, Hyperbole, Allusion, Pathetic Fallacy
• What is story structure?
• How do we tackle Paper 1 Question 3?
• What is the difference between language and structure?
• The story arc
• Narrative viewpoint
• Sequencing, beginnings and endings
• Movement in time
• Movement in space
• Patterns and repetition
• Character foils
• Irony
• What is evaluation?
• How do we tackle Paper 1 Question 4
• Subtext and finding differences in literal versus intended meaning
• Characters
• Genre
• Archetypes
• Dialogue
• Plot Types
• Cliches

The file is a PDF, but if you’d prefer a Google docs link, let me know. If you notice any mistakes or grammatical errors in the document, please do also let me know - it’s very long!

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