Language Elements
What do I look at when analyzing a text according to its language elements?
When analyzing language elements of a text, you are focusing on the words used.
What do I look at when analyzing a text according to its structural elements?
When analyzing the structural elements, you are looking at how the text is put together.
What language technique is used in the phrase "huge split"?
Adjective
The extract is mostly told through whose perspective?
Thomas' perspective (told by the narrator)
What language technique is used in the phrase "shocked by how much bigger it was up close"?
Clue: (It shows Thomas's strong reaction and feelings.)
Emotive Language
What structural element is created by ending the extract with Thomas imagining the walls closing in on him?
A cliffhanger
What language technique is used in the phrase "jutted out from the wall edge"?
Clue: It has to do with a part of speech
Powerful Verb
How does the author structure the extract to build tension? (order of events)
The author moves from description of the East Door to its strange features, to the revelation that the walls move, increasing tension step by step.
What language technique is used in the phrase "the dread slamming back into his gut"?
Figurative language/personification
What structural technique does the author use in some of the dialogue to show Thomas' shock and disbelief?
Short Sentences