Question 3 - AQA GCSE English

Writing about Language Features Step by Step 1st - read the article - we chose this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31386483 As you go, use your highlighter to try and identify different techniques. We found a pun, rhetorical questions, facts, opinions, alliteration, group of three, emotive language.... Decided 4 you can write well about... We decided to look at pun, rhetorical questions, facts and groups of three. Then write about them using the PQE structure. Here is what we came up with... One way the writer uses language features is to include the reader in the argument. The writer uses the technique of rhetorical questioning multiple times to keep his reader on board. ‘How can £10.2m per game be good value for money?’ The question provokes the reader to engage with the text / argument. I am eager to find out the answer and so I keep reading. Early on in the article, the writer uses a pun. ‘Changing picture for TV viewers.’ Here the humorous play on words shows two different meanings. ‘Changing picture’ could mean changing the channel, or what we expect to see on TV. The second meaning is the state of football as a game and how much it is valued, is changing. Both of these meanings are relevant, and so the pun makes us aware of this in a fun way. Always make sure that you talk about how the technique makes you respond as a reader - what job is it doing?