What is analysis?
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What is analysis in English A?
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Explaining how a writer's choices create meaning and affect the reader — not what the text says.
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What are the three steps of the analysis move?
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Name the CHOICE → explain the EFFECT on the reader → link to MEANING/purpose.
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Summary vs analysis?
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Summary = what a text says; analysis = how a choice works and why (the so-what).
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What is a 'choice' (technique)?
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Anything the writer decided — a word, image, sentence shape, layout or structure.
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What is 'effect'?
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What a choice does to the reader — how it makes them think or feel.
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Which step holds most of the marks?
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The effect (and the link to meaning) — not naming the technique.
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What is feature-spotting?
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Naming a device without explaining its effect — it scores almost nothing.
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What does asking 'so what?' do?
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Pushes you past describing a choice into explaining its meaning — real analysis.
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Coverage or depth — which scores better?
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Depth: one choice explained fully beats five just named.
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Which criterion rewards analysis?
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Criterion B — Analysis and evaluation.
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Turn 'the writer uses a short sentence' into analysis.
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The short sentence feels abrupt and final, making the warning sound urgent (choice → effect → meaning).
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Understanding Analysis
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