Q3 – Language Analysis L.O. To increase confidence with analysing language for purpose.

Q3 AO2 Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views. This question assesses Language ie: Words / Phrases / Language Features / Language Techniques / Sentence Forms

Home Learning Choose 4 of Sassoon’s techniques and answer the following question: How does Sassoon use language to influence his Commanding Officer? You need 4xPEAI paragraphs. Due:

Planning Point (Language feature) Evidence (Quote) Analysis (What is the effect?) Link to influence (How does it influence the reader?)

Effect on the reader Which quotes create which effect? Give a reason for each one. ExampleEffect on the reader 1) The poor creature crawled towards the stream. disgust 2) How did the hamster manage to scare the intruder? shock 3) It’s not only households in the countryside who need to be worried. They’re heading for your town too. humour 4) Shivering, starving and stranded, the beaten foal searched for its mother. sympathy 5) The guards flung the helpless prisoner on to the ground and attacked him. fear 6) We’ve all been there. The moment when you realise you’ve got toilet roll stuck on your shoe. confusion

Effect on the reader Which quotes create which effect? Give a reason for each one. ExampleEffect on the reader 1) The poor creature crawled towards the stream. sympathy 2) How did the hamster manage to scare the intruder? confusion 3) It’s not only households in the countryside who need to be worried. They’re heading for your town too. fear 4) Shivering, starving and stranded, the beaten foal searched for its mother. disgust 5) The guards flung the helpless prisoner on to the ground and attacked him. shock 6) We’ve all been there. The moment when you realise you’ve got toilet roll stuck on your shoe. humour How many did you get right? Were there any differences? Why?

Influencing People How do you get someone to do what you want? With your partner, choose one of these scenarios and write down the best way of persuading/influencing the person to do what you want. Persuading your mum to give you £30 so that you can go paintballing with your friends. Getting out of an hour’s detention after school, set by your form tutor. Persuading your friend to lend you their brand new iphone 6 for the night. Trying to get a work experience placement at Kings College Hospital. Persuading your peers to vote for you to be head boy/girl.

What do you already know about WW1? WW1

Propaganda How did these propaganda posters try to influence men to go and fight?

What was war really like though? The reality

Siegfried Sassoon In 1917, Sassoon, an officer fighting in WW1, wrote a letter to his Commanding Officer protesting about the war. What do you think he might have protested about?

How does he use language to put forward his strong point of view? I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation has now become a war of aggression and conquest. I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects witch actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation. I have seen and endured the suffering of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed. On behalf of those who are suffering now I make this protest against the deception which is being practised on them; also I believe that I may help to destroy the callous complacence with which the majority of those at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share, and which they have not sufficient imagination to realise.

Diamond 9 – which is the most effective technique for his purpose? Repetition Personal pronouns Emotive language Contrasts Alliteration Complex sentences Compound sentences Sarcasm/satire Formal language

Look at the pair next to you Which ones do you agree on? Which ones do you disagree on?

Over to you Now go back to the scenario you had at the start of the lesson. Choose 4 of Sassoon’s techniques and write a letter to the person you are persuading using a similar tone to Sassoon.