English / Level 9 / Literature / Examining literature
Content description
Interpret and analyse language choices, including sentence patterns, dialogue, imagery and other language features, in short stories, literary essays and plays
Elaborations
identifying examples of language devices in a range of poems, ballads or poetic extracts, and considering how their use adds to meaning and may also influence the emotional responses of listeners or readers, in varying ways
exploring how language devices look or sound in written or spoken texts, how they can be identified, purposes they serve and what effect they might have on how the audience responds
taking a particular area of study, a topic or theme and examining how different authors make use of devices like myth, icons and imagery in their work
