Structural analysis
What Structural analysis means in English Language GCSE, as defined for Eduqas, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Commenting on choices such as sentence forms, paragraphing, openings and endings, shifts in focus and patterns across a text, and linking them to meaning.
Examining how a text is organised, sequenced, paced, or how sentences and paragraphs are shaped, and how this shapes meaning or the reader's response.
Topics that use Structural analysis
- Assessment - Assessment Objectives and Weightings (Eduqas GCSE)
- Assessment Objectives (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Active listening
- Formal spoken register
- Language analysis
- Textual evidence
- Tone, style and register
- Appropriate response to questions
- Audience and purpose
- Audience and purpose in formal speech
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