Starter quiz
- When answering questions about texts, why is it important to use quotes?
- to justify your ideas ✓
- to practice your creative writing
- to practice your spellings
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- What is true when using quotes from a text?
- you must always quote full sentences from texts
- the best quotes include literary techniques
- you can quote words or phrase from a text ✓
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- What is one connotation of the word 'dagger'?
- harmony
- danger ✓
- a sharp object
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- Which of the below is a simile?
- The night descended like a velvet curtain. ✓
- Her laughter was sunlight.
- Just as Jill went to pick the ball up, John beat her to it.
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- What does sinister mean?
- giving the impression something harmful will happen ✓
- something that is gloomy and upsetting
- not letting a lot of light in
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- What is an extended metaphor?
- a metaphor that compares an object to two things
- a metaphor that is at least three sentences long
- a metaphor that spans multiple lines of a text ✓
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Exit quiz
- When looking for evidence in a text to support our answers, we must ensure the evidence we select is ...
- from the first sentence of the text.
- relevant. ✓
- meaningful. ✓
- longer than a single word.
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- What should you do when you first encounter a question based on a fiction text?
- go straight to writing your response
- start underlining quotes you may use
- annotate the question so you know what it is asking of you ✓
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- What is relevant evidence?
- evidence that stands out to you
- evidence that has powerful connotations
- evidence that is linked to the focus of the question you have been asked ✓
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- What is the most important thing to consider when selecting meaningful evidence?
- choose evidence with powerful connotations ✓
- choose evidence that includes sophisticated vocabulary
- choose evidence with language techniques
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- Which word below has the most powerful connotations?
- gigantic
- frightening
- creature ✓
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- How can we make our use of evidence in a response more effective?
- use the first piece of powerful evidence you come across
- actively search for language patterns in the text ✓
- make sure we have at least four pieces of evidence per idea
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Key learning points
- When looking for quotations useful for analysis, we need to ensure our evidence is relevant and meaningful.
- Meaningful evidence is language with powerful connotations that you can dig deeper into.
- We can make our language analysis more effective by linking evidence together to support our ideas.
- Actively search for patterns in language to strengthen your language analysis.
Common misconception
A response is successful if it includes relevant quotes.
We should aim high in our language analysis. That means going a step further to use the most meaningful evidence as well as looking for patterns in the text that help us gather a collection of evidence.
Keywords
Relevant - connected to what is being discussed
Meaningful - useful or important; communicating something that is not directly expressed
Connotations - an idea or feeling that a word evokes
Patterns - repeating of similar elements in a text
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