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Flashcards for CCEA GCSE English Language (5030), split into language, structural and presentational techniques, rhetoric and the forms a purpose-and-audience task can ask for, grammar and punctuation for technical accuracy, and what each unit's tasks assess. Follows the specification for exams from 2027.

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What is inside (39 subdecks)

  • 1. Language techniques210 cards
    • 1. Word classes48 cards
    • 2. Figurative language and imagery69 cards
    • 3. Sound and rhythm27 cards
    • 4. Sentence types and forms30 cards
    • 5. Tone, register and other language choices36 cards
  • 2. Structural techniques87 cards
    • 1. Openings and endings19 cards
    • 2. Narrative perspective and viewpoint24 cards
    • 3. Shifts in focus, pace and structure27 cards
    • 4. Cohesion and paragraphing17 cards
  • 3. Presentational and media techniques44 cards
    • 1. Layout, colour and image choices21 cards
    • 2. Headlines, captions and other text features23 cards
  • 4. Rhetoric, persuasion and argument44 cards
    • 1. Persuasive and rhetorical devices34 cards
    • 2. Writing to argue and persuade10 cards
  • 5. Writing forms, purposes and audiences47 cards
    • 1. Forms: the speech6 cards
    • 2. Forms: the letter6 cards
    • 3. Forms: the article6 cards
    • 4. Forms: the leaflet5 cards
    • 5. Forms: the report and the review9 cards
    • 6. Personal and creative writing8 cards
    • 7. Matching form, purpose and audience7 cards
  • 6. Grammar, punctuation and spelling74 cards
    • 1. Sentence grammar24 cards
    • 2. Standard English and technical accuracy8 cards
    • 3. The semicolon and the colon7 cards
    • 4. The apostrophe7 cards
    • 5. Commas and other punctuation10 cards
    • 6. Commonly confused words18 cards
  • 7. The exam: what each unit and task assesses36 cards
    • 1. Unit 1: Writing for Purpose and Audience6 cards
    • 2. Unit 1: Reading to Access Non-fiction and Media Texts9 cards
    • 3. Unit 2: Speaking and Listening4 cards
    • 4. Unit 3: Studying Spoken and Written Language5 cards
    • 5. Unit 4: Personal or Creative Writing5 cards
    • 6. Unit 4: Reading Literary and Non-fiction Texts7 cards

Some of its cards

  • Repetition of the same consonant sound at the start of nearby words
    Alliteration
  • Why must a writing task's form be chosen to suit its stated audience?
    The same idea needs different vocabulary, structure and tone depending on who is meant to read or hear it
  • Why does a speech often open by addressing its audience directly?
    It builds an immediate connection with the audience before the argument begins
  • Chronological structure
    A text structured in the order events actually happened, from earliest to latest
  • What does an apostrophe mark in a contraction?
    That one or more letters have been left out
  • Cohesion
    The way a text's ideas connect and flow together clearly from sentence to sentence and paragraph to paragraph
  • What greeting opens a formal letter when the reader's name is known?
    "Dear [name],"
  • What two kinds of source text does the Unit 1 reading section use?
    A non-fiction text, such as a newspaper or magazine piece, and a media text, such as a book cover or advertisement
  • What must a newspaper or magazine article's headline do?
    Catch the reader's attention and sum up what the article is about
  • Beginning a narrative in the middle of the action, rather than at the story's true start
    In medias res

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