ENGLISH LANGUAGE ANALYSIS

SECTION B (I)
Components of
Analysis
1. POINTS: answer the
question

2. CONTEXT: you
explain a bit about
where your quote
comes from in the
passage, summarise
what the quote is about,
and then write down the
quote.

The right
way
George
Alagiah
makes the
suffering of the Somalian people
vivid by using specific verbs and
short sentences.

For example, when he visits an old

lady, he notices that he leg has been
shot by soldiers and is badly
damaged. He makes the startling
comment: it was rotting: she was
rotting to describe her condition.

The wrong way

George Alagiah uses
language to make
the suffering of the
people vivid.

it was rotting: she was rotting shows that

the she was rotting.

Never start a sentence

with a quotation!
Always introduce it!
3. ANALYSIS:
- what type of sentence
is it?
- sentence structure and
tone
- key words
(connotations)
- devices/techniques

1 and 2) The short, blunt statement Shes rotting.

conveys how matter-of-fact Alagiah
is about the injury he sees, which
conveys the brute reality of the
horrific injury. 3) The verb rotting
is grotesque and horrific and
conveys how the ladys leg is
slowly decaying. 4) Furthermore,
the fact that Alagiah repeats this
verb after the colon, stating matterof-factly that she the whole lady
is rotting shows how she is dying
because of her injury.

4. EVALUATION:
youve reflected on
how the quotation
makes you feel, or what
it makes you
understand about the
passage.

This is a distressing and horrifying This is shocking and upsetting.

moment in the text and it conveys
how innocent people were punished
by violence.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ANALYSIS

SECTION B (I)