Task Verbs
Means to identify techniques
What is how?
Identify the technique.
The city at night stretched out below us like a vast, glittering circuit board, humming with invisible data.
What is a simile?
Direct exclusion or shunning of an individual by a group or society without explicit verbal confrontation.
What is ostracism/rejection?
For a 2-mark question, the ideal number of textual examples or quotes to include.
What is ONE/TWO well-chosen quotes or detailed textual references?
In a 5-point short answer paragraph, this opening sentence directly answers the prompt using key words and names the text.
What is a topic sentence?
To make an idea, situation, or problem clear and understandable to someone else by describing it in detail or giving relevant facts.
What is explain?
The brutal winter wind interrogated the fragile wooden cabin, searching for any weakness in its armor.
What is personification?
The emotional state of feeling disconnected, lonely, or estranged from one's community or environment.
What is alienation?
As a general rule of thumb, how many minutes should you spend on a 2-mark short-answer question in an exam?
What is 3 to 4 minutes?
When selecting a quote to demonstrate social exclusion, you should avoid long plot summaries and focus on this quality.
What is selecting relevant, concise, and technique-rich evidence?
To examine something in detail by breaking it down into its core parts in order to understand its nature, structure, or essential features.
What is analyse?
A deafening silence settled over the courtroom as the verdict was read.
What is oxymoron?
When social exclusion deprives an individual of their power, voice, or ability to make choices about their own life.
What is loss of agency?
The key difference in expectation when a question changes from "State..." (1 mark) to "Explain..." (2 marks).
What is providing the reasoning/cause (the "why" or "how") rather than just naming an item?
Instead of simply saying "This shows the character is excluded," a strong response does this to explain how the technique builds meaning.
What is analysing the specific effect of the technique/words on the reader/audience?
To evaluate or judge the nature, quality, value, or importance of something, typically by considering multiple factors or criteria to form a definitive judgment.
What is assess?
Identify the technique.
His conscience was an unrelenting architect, continuously building monuments to his past mistakes.
What is a metaphor?
A psychological and social process where a dominant group defines another group as fundamentally different, inferior, or alien to establish their own superiority.
What is othering?
The standard formula for evidence required in a typical 3-mark English short answer response.
What is a PEEL/PETAL paragraph with 2-3 techniques/quotes?
The final sentence of a short answer response that reinforces your primary thesis and connects back to the essay question.
What is the Linking Sentence?
To examine two or more items, concepts, or situations side-by-side to identify their similarities and differences.
What is compare?
In this city, we sell our time to buy space. We sell our peace to buy prestige. We sell our youth to buy an illusion of security.
What is anaphora?
The practice of treating a person or group as insignificant or peripheral within a society.
What is marginalisation?
In a 5-mark question, what elevated structural element separates a 3-mark response from a 5-mark response?
What is a strong thesis statement and a clear linking sentence that sustains an argument throughout?
The process of reviewing, changing, and refining text, film, audio, or data to make it clear, correct, and ready for public view.
This is really important!
What is editing?