O-LevelEnglish LanguageReading for Meaning1123/21 · Oct/Nov 2017 · Q75 Marks
From Paragraph 4
- (a)It 'was difficult for Aoife to draw breath into her lungs'. Pick out and write down the two-word phrase used later in the paragraph which conveys a similar idea.[1]
- (b)The letters in the contract looked to Aoife like 'lines of ants crawling over the page'. Give two ways in which this is an effective comparison.[2]
- (c)The writer says the letters on the page were 'like grasses swaying in the wind'. Explain how the letters appeared to Aoife at that moment.[2]
Mark scheme
Marking points from the official mark scheme (Oct/Nov 2017). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.
- 7(a) [1] Suffocating panic
- 7(b) [1] (i) the printed word is black // ants are black // they are black (Allowed Responses: (printed) words / text / letters as interchangeable 'same colour' for 'black')
- 7(b) [1] (ii) the text was moving (around) // ants / move (around) // they move (around) (Allowed Responses: '(clustered and) rearranged (themselves)' for 'moved' // scattered)
- 7(b) [1] (iii) the letters are small // ants are small // they are small (Allowed Responses: 'same size' for 'small')
- 7(c) [1] (They were) waving / oscillating // moving from side to side / to and fro / back and forth (Allowed Responses: moving from left to right)
- 7(c) [1] (long vertical) columns // vertical lines // (lines) going from top to bottom // (they were) long / tall (Allowed Responses: (They were) one above the other / on top of each other // piled / stacked)
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