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Unit 1: Perspectives in English
Quick questions on Language features and grammar (QCE English Unit 1)
12short Q&A pairs drawn directly from our worked dot-point answer. For full context and worked exam questions, read the parent dot-point page.
What is vocabulary?Show answer
Denotation (literal meaning) vs connotation (emotional and cultural associations). Register (formal, colloquial, slang). Field-specific vocabulary (scientific, legal, religious).
What is sound at word level?Show answer
Alliteration, assonance, consonance. Builds rhythm and emphasis.
What is sentence types?Show answer
Declarative (statement), interrogative (question), imperative (command), exclamative (exclamation). Each positions the reader differently.
What is sentence structure?Show answer
Simple, compound, complex, compound-complex. Long complex sentences signal qualification and nuance; short sentences signal emphasis or finality.
What is special structures?Show answer
Parallelism (parallel grammatical structures), antithesis (paired opposites), tricolon (three-part lists), anaphora (repetition at start), epistrophe (repetition at end).
What is fragments?Show answer
Deliberately incomplete sentences. Convey voice, urgency, or interrupted thought.
What is cohesion?Show answer
Referencing (pronouns linking back to nouns), conjunction (and, but, however), lexical chains (related vocabulary across the text), repetition.
What is tense?Show answer
Past, present, future. Historic present (using present tense for past events) creates immediacy.
What is person?Show answer
First (I, we), second (you), third (he, she, they). First person creates intimacy; second person addresses the reader directly; third person creates distance or objectivity.
What is listing features without effect analysis?Show answer
Marking guides reward effect analysis, not feature spotting.
What is confusing register with formality alone?Show answer
Register also includes field (legal vs literary) and tenor (intimate vs distant).
What is treating fragments as errors?Show answer
In professional and literary writing, fragments are deliberate.