Paper 1
Section A: Reading Response to Non-Fiction and Media Texts
3 Understanding how writers achieve effects
Student Book Page 29
Activity
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1 Look closely at the headlines at the foot of page 28. Which one:
 uses a rhetorical question
 uses alliteration
 is made to sound dramatic
 uses a play on words (a pun)?
Complete the following chart by identifying the technique(s) used and
saying what the effect is. The first one is done for you.
Headline
Technique(s)
Effect
‘I thought we would
never get out alive’
Made to sound dramatic
Emphasises the danger
and the seriousness of
the incident
‘Who will trust the spin
doctors now?’
‘Dying for a Boy-bandbinge weekend’
‘United’s double act
shatters sorry Spurs’