Vocabulary
The three main elements to identify in a text.
What is the form, structure, and context?
The classification of a text (e.g. blog, diary, short story, etc)
What is form?
This term describes how a writer organizes a text, such as using cause and effect.
What is structure?
Smoothly blending quotes into your own sentences.
Example: When Dahl writes that she “was content to sit quietly, enjoying his company after the long hours alone in the house,” which highlights her loyalty.
What is quotation integration?
These sentence types are used to establish a calm, domestic mood.
What are long descriptive sentences?
The feeling created for the reader (peaceful, suspenseful, ironic).
What is mood?
A short, fictional narrative focusing on one storyline (600-1000 Words).
What is a short story?
This is the speed at which a story’s events happen.
What is pacing?
This specific form is meant to give a description/evaluation of an experience and recommend it to an audience.
What is a review?
These sentence types are used to reflect shock, panic, and suspense.
What are short, abrupt sentences?
The author’s attitude toward the subject (calm, tense, humorous, etc.).
What is tone?
A 400-word reflective commentary.
What is a diary?
A strong analysis focuses on how structure affects meaning, rather than doing this.
What is retelling events?
This specific form is characterized by its use of a headline, a lead paragraph, and an objective, factual tone to report current events to the general public.
What is a newspaper?
The specific writing variable an author adjusts to set the character's mood.
What is sentence length?
The speed at which a story unfolds.
What is pacing?
This text uses informal language (conversational tone), headlines, etc.
What is a blog?
This organizational method lists events in the order they happen, with a beginning, middle, and end.
What is chronological order?
This form functions as a structured or argumentative piece, often involving a thesis, supporting evidence, and a logical progression of ideas—to explore a complex topic or persuade a target audience.
What is an essay?
The structural effect of a "calm beginning" followed by a plot twist.
What is contrast?
When the opposite of what is expected happens (ex: police eat the murder weapon)
What is irony?
A commentary that evaluates the stylistic choices of the student's writing against the original Cambridge text, focusing on how the candidate adapted voice, tone, and language to meet the task requirements.
This three-stage structural progression is used to demonstrate how an author strategically manipulates reader expectations to create a specific impact.
What is structure?
This complex form functions as a structured piece that analyzes stylistic choices in a text, and how it connects to its targeted audience. *BE SPECIFIC*
What is an analytical essay?
This three-stage structural progression is a classic way to build tension: starting with a calm opening, moving to a shocking climax, and ending with this.
What is an ironic resolution?