What you need to know
To achieve 100+ you need to identify and explain how a writer's choice of words, phrases and language features enhance meaning in poetry or a fiction text.
- Writers use language in different ways to keep readers interested. For example, they use imagery to produce vivid images in readers' minds and to encourage readers to connect with texts, to increase enjoyment and develop thinking skills.
- One way to create imagery is to use figurative language. This is language that has a different meaning from the literal or 'usual' meaning. Examples include simile, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia and personification.
- Writers also create imagery by using idioms. These are phrases that mean something different to how they sound. For example, writing raining cats and dogs instead of pouring down and writing a piece of cake instead of something that can be accomplished easily.
- Poets try to engage with the reader's feelings by using humour, sorrow, adoration and jealousy as well as many other emotions.
- Poets use language in a creative way to produce vivid images and to encourage readers to connect with poems, to increase enjoyment and develop thinking skills.
- Poets also use language to give rhythm and flow to words, to add rhymes and repetition of words and sounds. These features affect how the poem sounds when you read it. They can also help to communicate the poem's meaning and can impact on the reader.