Section B (i)How to analyse quotations

EXAMINE SOMETHING METHODICALLY AND IN DETAIL IN ORDER TO EXPLAIN OR INTERPRET IT

Stage One: Sentence Level what kind of sentence is it?

DECLARATIVE (the most common: any statement)

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IMPERATIVE (any sentence that issues an order or command)

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INTERROGATIVE (any sentence that ends in ?)

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Stage Two: Sentence Structure and Tone

Is it short and blunt (is the tone surprise? Shock? Blunt and matter-of-fact?) Does it contain repetition (is the writer trying to emphase something? Are they passionate? Angry? distressed?) Is it long and complex (building up description? Creating tension? Recalling lovely memories? Setting a specific scene?)

Stage Three: Word Level Adjectives (describe a noun) Verbs (a doing word) Modal verbs (e.g. would, could, might etc. they modify verbs) Nouns (thing, place, person) Pronouns (he, she, it,)

Stage Four: Techniques

Simile

Metaphor (extended)

Onomatopoeia

Personification

Repetition

Alliteration

Fricatives

Sibilance

Assonance

Hyperbole

Humour

Superlative

Emotive language

Rhetorical question

Facts

Opinions

Statistics

Tricolon (rule of three)

Anecdotes

Technical Language

Direct Speech (quote)

A thousand lean, hungry, scared and betrayed faces

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it was the smell that led me to the doorway: the smell of decaying flesh

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A mixture of pity and revulsion. Yes, revulsion

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