1.1.2 The Author's Style
Analyse form, layout, atmosphere and Welsh stylistic choices in the selected novel.
How to use this English-interface Cymraeg guide
Read the strategy in English, then return to the Welsh source: quote and analyse its exact wording and produce every assessed response in accurate Cymraeg.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Narrative voice, viewpoint, structure, form and layout
Exam cue: Confirm the current WJEC route, unit, task and assessment control before choosing a reading, writing or speaking strategy.
Concept 2
Welsh vocabulary, imagery, dialogue, syntax and other stylistic features
Exam cue: Quote the exact Welsh feature, identify it accurately and explain how its wording or structure produces a specific effect.
Concept 3
How authorial choices construct character, theme, scene and atmosphere
Exam cue: Use the English guidance to plan the skill, but cite, analyse and produce the assessed response in accurate Welsh.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Naming a technique without analysing its Welsh wording, placement and contribution to meaning.
Guardrail: Do not translate away the assessed Welsh, bind optional texts universally or combine mutually exclusive award routes.
Answering the assessed task in English or translating away the Welsh wording, quotation, register, grammar or literary effect being assessed.
Guardrail: Do not translate away the assessed Welsh, bind optional texts universally or combine mutually exclusive award routes.
Binding every learner to an optional centre-selected text, poem or stimulus, or combining Single and Double Award units into one route.
Guardrail: Use Units 1-3 plus 4a for Single or Units 1-3 plus 4b, 5 and 6 for Double; never add weights or tasks across routes.
Memory anchors
arddull
Style: the author's characteristic choices in language and form.
awyrgylch
Atmosphere created through description, sound, pace and viewpoint.
safbwynt
Viewpoint from which events and ideas are presented.
delweddaeth
Imagery that creates associations and sensory or figurative meaning.
deialog
Dialogue: spoken exchange used to reveal character, relation and conflict.
ffurf
Form: the organising conventions and shape of the text.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
What is the main effect of “Taro, taro, taro”?
How is the rain personified?
Answer all questions to submit.
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