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Reading non-fiction: analysing language choices and their effects in non-fiction texts
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Question 1 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

What does an AO2 language question ask you to do?

  1. Compare the extract with another text
  2. Describe the writer's life and background
  3. Retell the events of the extract in order
  4. Explain how the writer's word choices affect the reader
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✓ Answer: DExplain how the writer's word choices affect the reader
Award 1 mark. AO2 is about the effect of language, not about what the text says. Retelling the content is the commonest way to score poorly on it.
Question 2 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

Which word class describes an action or state, such as "crowded" in "the road are crowded"?

  1. Verb
  2. Preposition
  3. Conjunction
  4. Noun
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✓ Answer: AVerb
Award 1 mark. Naming the word class is useful subject terminology, which AO2 explicitly rewards. The terminology only earns marks when the effect is explained alongside it.
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