English / Level 6 / Literature / Responding to literature
Content description
Identify and explain how choices in language, including modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts
Elaborations
noting how degrees of possibility are opened up through the use of modal verbs (for example, ‘It may be a solution’ as compared to ‘It could be a solution’), as well as through other resources such as adverbs (for example, ‘It’s possibly/probably/certainly a solution’), adjectives (for example, ‘It’s a possible/probable/certain solution’); and nouns (for example, ‘It’s a possibility/probability’)
