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Strategies
HIGHER CLOSE READING
Question types
 Understanding (U)
 Analysis (A)
 Evaluation (E)
Strategy - Understanding questions
Make a point to get a point.
Bullet point your answers.
Use your own words at all times.
Not sure? Offer another possibility.
Strategy – Context questions (U)
DEFINITION: give a definition of the unfamiliar
word, as best you can.
QUOTE: refer to the context & pick out (quote)
words which mean something similar to your
definition of the word.
SHOW: Show how the quote(s) helped you to arrive
at the meaning of this unfamiliar word.
Strategy – Linking questions (U)
 Quote
 Link back
 Quote
 Link forward
 (Remember to refer to the linking word if there is
one.)
Analysis questions
 Imagery
 Word choice
 Sentence structure
 Tone
 Other techniques, e.g. hyperbole, alliteration
Imagery (A)
 Similes
 Metaphors
 Personification
 Involves a comparison
 Is not meant to be taken literally
Strategy – Imagery questions (A)
 Identify the type of image.
 Quote it.
 Say what is being compared to what.
 Use “just as... so too…”.
 Say what the comparison adds to the reader’s
understanding of the passage.
Strategy – Word choice questions (A)
 Identify word
 Meaning
 Connotation
 Impact
Sentence Structure:
 You may be asked to comment on:
 Punctuation
 Sentence length
 Sentence types
 Sentence patterns
 You will never be given marks for simply identifying
a feature (e.g. “the writer uses semi-colons”).
 You must always say what effect or purpose it has.
SENTENCE TYPES
 Statement
 The capital of Scotland is Edinburgh.
 Command
 Stand up. Get your things. Stand outside. Move!
 Question
 Are you feeling under the weather?
 Rhetorical Question
 Do I look like I was born yesterday?
 Exclamation
 What a fantastic present! How cool! I love it!
 Minor Sentence (sentences without a verb) aka ‘note-form’
 What time? Three o’clock. Where? At the station. Happy days.
SENTENCE PATTERNS
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Repetition
To emphasise the word/phrase being repeated.
I have the same problem year after year after year after year.
(This emphasises that things never change from one year to the next. The
problem has gone on for ever.)
 List
 To emphasise the quantity, volume or variety of something.
 She loved most subjects at school: English, Maths, French, Biology, PE,
Art, Music, Drama…
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Climax
To show a progression or sequence.
To build up to a dramatic or important finish.
Susan’s behaviour annoyed her friends, angered her teachers, and utterly
enraged her father.
PUNCTUATION
 Comma
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 Used to break up clauses/phrases in a sentence.
 Several commas can be used to create a simple list.
 At the shops I bought eggs, milk, soup, bread and
cheese.
 Exclamation mark
!
 Shows emotions such as surprise, excitement,
enthusiasm, anger or shock.
 I can’t believe I’ve won! I’ve won! I’m a millionaire!
 Question mark
?
 Indicates a question.
 Rhetorical Questions don’t require an answer because it
is already known or not needed.
 Questions are often used to involve the reader or grab
their attention.
 Are you tired? Are you stressed? Do you wish you could
just forget about your daily troubles?
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 Then why not come to the Clarkston Spa Resort?
 Ellipsis
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To show a sentence trailing off.
To show a sentence being interrupted.
To show pauses or uncertainty.
To show words have been missed out.
She was worried. “I just…I mean… it was right
there…can’t believe…I can’t have l…”
 Colon
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 Introduces a list, quotation or example.
 My favourite books: Jane Eyre, Perfume, Mrs Dalloway, Twilight and
War and Peace.
 Semi-colon
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 Separates items in a complex list (where each item is several words long)
 The company has shops in London which is in the UK; Seville which is in
the south of Spain; Houston which is the capital of Texas in America, and
Rome the capital of Italy.
 Dash
 Introduces extra information, an elaboration, an explanation or an
example.
 The most terrifying dinosaur was the Tyrannosaurus Rex – a massive,
carnivorous and aggressive beast.
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Two Dashes or Two Brackets
- (
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Called parenthesis.
Used to insert one of two kinds of extra information:
an explanation or more detail.
A comment or aside from the writer (often humourous).
The age in which the T-Rex lived (the Jurassic Period)
was about 200 million years ago.
 My sister had only come into my room (rude enough in
itself) to ask if she could borrow my jeans (as if!).
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Strategy – Sentence structure (A)
 Identify the feature of structure being used.
 Comment on the effect of the structure on the
reader’s understanding of the passage.
Tone Bank
 Informal; Humorous; Light Hearted; Whimsical; Gently
Mocking
 Sarcastic; Mocking; Ironic
 Formal; Questioning; Outraged; Angry; Critical; Sinister
 Nostalgic; Reverential; Reflective; Awed
 Disappointed; Uncertain; Doubtful
Strategy – Tone (A)
 Identify the tone.
 Quote words or phrases that create this tone.
 Analyse how those words/phrases create the
tone.
Formula – Evaluation (E)
 Identify an appropriate feature or technique.
 Show how it relates to the writer’s purpose, attitude
or overall line of argument.