Component Two
Exploring effects and impact
Introduction
From the OCR English Language specification:
‘For the reading of fiction, learners read and respond to unseen prose fiction texts drawn from the 20th and /or 21st century. One text may be literary non-fiction. Learners develop knowledge and understanding of writers’ use of language and techniques to create meaning and effects in narrative fiction and literary non-fiction’.
- Learners read a wide range of high-quality prose fiction texts drawn from the 20th and/or 21st century. This may include, for example, extracts from novels, short stories or literary non-fiction such as autobiography.
- Learners engage with the detail in texts to draw inferences and recognise the possibility of different reactions.
- They explore the impact of writers’ uses of language, structure and grammatical features on the reader.
- Learners support their ideas about texts with carefully selected evidence.
- They develop knowledge and understanding of linguistic and literary terminology to support their analysis of texts.
Learners should be able to:
- comment on writers’ choices of vocabulary, form and grammatical features and how these create meaning
- analyse and compare writers’ use of language, paying attention to detail
- draw inferences and justify points of view by referring closely to evidence from the text
- interpret writers’ meanings and effects in single texts and across two texts
- identify the main themes and ideas in texts
- use appropriate linguistic and literary terminology…
