ENGLISH LANGUAGE ANALYSIS SECTION B (I)

Components of AnalysisThe right wayThe wrong way

1. POINTS: answer the question

George Alagiah makes the suffering of the Somalian people vivid by using specific verbs and short sentences.George Alagiah uses language to make the suffering of the people vivid.

2. CONTEXT: you explain a bit about where your quote comes from in the passage, summarise what the quote is about, and then write down the quote.

Never start a sentence with a quotation! Always introduce it!

For example, when he visits an old lady, he notices that he leg has been shot by soldiers and is badly damaged. He makes the startling comment: it was rotting: she was rotting to describe her condition.it was rotting: she was rotting shows that the she was rotting.

3. ANALYSIS:- what type of sentence is it?- sentence structure and tone- key words (connotations)- devices/techniques

1 and 2) The short, blunt statement conveys how matter-of-fact Alagiah is about the injury he sees, which conveys the brute reality of the horrific injury. 3) The verb rotting is grotesque and horrific and conveys how the ladys leg is slowly decaying. 4) Furthermore, the fact that Alagiah repeats this verb after the colon, stating matter-of-factly that she the whole lady is rotting shows how she is dying because of her injury. Shes rotting.

4. EVALUATION: youve reflected on how the quotation makes you feel, or what it makes you understand about the passage.

This is a distressing and horrifying moment in the text and it conveys how innocent people were punished by violence.

This is shocking and upsetting.