Language

Language should be learnt within the context of your literature.

Apply your language analysis sheets to your literature. For the exams, you will be required to know the language from the earlier grades too.

• Summary (see Caps in Tabular form)
• Errors: Form 3
• Comprehension
• Answering questions from lower order to higher order
• Comparing and contrasting
• Synthesising
• Evaluating
• Drawing conclusions
• expressing own opinion
• Reproducing the genre in writing of their own
• Intention, style, tone

Errors of style and literary terminology

• Ambiguity
• Cliché
• redundancy
• Tautology
• Circumlocution and verbosity
• Slang
• Jargon
• Accent
• Stereotype
• Prejudice
• Bias
• Offensive language
• Emotives
• Sexist language etc

Tone Words for Form 3

• Bitter
• Defensive
• Flippant
• Formal
• Nostalgic
• Optimistic
• Pessimistic
• Thoughtful
• Worried
• Sarcastic

Writing

Essays

• Literary Essay
• Narrative/descriptive (Bishop Bousfield)

Transactional Writing

• Letter to the Editor
• Formal report