Tool
PENCIL
Point
Evidence
aNalysis
Context
Infer
Link
ISOFTWARES
Irony
Statistic
Opinion
Fact
Triple
Wit
Anecdote
Rhetorical
Expert/Emotive
Sarcasm
QUID
Quote
Understanding
Infer
Device / Detail
SPAMROD
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
Metaphor
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Description
Where it can be used
English Literature – Paper 1
Romeo & Juliet/MacBeth response
A Christmas Carol/Jekyll & Hyde
What is the point you are making (ensuring the question is being answered)?
What is the evidence you are using to support your point (quote or reference)?
Explain what it is the evidence you have chosen shows us (in relation to the question).
English Literature – Paper 2
An Inspector Calls
Power & Conflict poetry
Unseen poetry
How do circumstances affect how the quote being used is received?
What conclusions can you make about what the writer is trying to do?
How does this paragraph link to the question or how does this paragraph link to the next?
Expressing meaning using language that suggests the opposite.
Numerical data used to support an argument.
English Language – Paper 2
Reading – Questions 2 to 4
Writing – Question 5
A personal view or judgement formed about something.
Knowledge that is known or proven to be true.
Repeating an idea three times (often phrased differently each time).
An inventive, quick or funny comment.
A short story about a real experience.
A question asked to create dramatic effect rather than receive an answer.
Using an expert to support your response/Using language that creates an emotional response.
Showing disapproval by mocking an idea.
What evidence illustrates the point you are making (quote or reference)?
What does your evidence literally tell us is happening?
Explain what it is you think the writer is trying to tell us in your quote.
English Language – Paper 1
Questions 2 to 4
English Language – Paper 2
Questions 2 to 4
Which words in your evidence stand out? What are they? Are they part of a device?
Comparing one thing with another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
Giving something non-human human characteristics.
Repetition of the same sound at the start of connected words.
Representing one thing as something else.
Repeating an idea to reinforce it.
Using words that have a sound with what is named.
Using contradicting terms to describe an idea.
Using adjectives to vividly illustrate something.
English Language – Paper 1
Questions 5
English Literature – Paper 2
Poetry analysis – Power & Conflict, Unseen Poetry