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| Q | Topic | Marks | Question | Answer given | Note |
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| 1 | R1 | 2/3 | **Source A** — from a short story, 21st century. Sam, twelve, is walking home across the moor. *(lines 1–7)* Sam had walked the moor path a hundred times. In summer it was a dusty ribbon between the heather, and you could see the roof of the farm from the top of the first rise. Today the sky was the colour of dishwater, and the wind had dropped to nothing. He had his father's old coat on, the one with the torn pocket, and a bag of shopping that knocked against his knee at every step. He was not worried. It was four o'clock. He would be home before the lamps went on. *(lines 8–16)* The fog came up from the valley without a sound. One minute the far wall was there, a grey line stitched across the hill; the next it had been rubbed out. The fog did not drift so much as pour, filling the hollows first, then climbing. It swallowed the gorse. It swallowed the path ten paces ahead of him, then five, and the world shrank to a circle of wet grass and the sound of his own breathing. His coat gr | 1. A 2. C 3. B | 01.1 A (0): 'dusty ribbon' is the summer path; 'Today the sky was the colour of dishwater' is explicit in line 3. 01.2 C (1). 01.3 B (1). loss=technique on 01.1 (missed 'today'). |
| 2 | R3.1 | 2/4 | **Source A** — from a short story, 21st century. Sam, twelve, is walking home across the moor. *(lines 1–7)* Sam had walked the moor path a hundred times. In summer it was a dusty ribbon between the heather, and you could see the roof of the farm from the top of the first rise. Today the sky was the colour of dishwater, and the wind had dropped to nothing. He had his father's old coat on, the one with the torn pocket, and a bag of shopping that knocked against his knee at every step. He was not worried. It was four o'clock. He would be home before the lamps went on. *(lines 8–16)* The fog came up from the valley without a sound. One minute the far wall was there, a grey line stitched across the hill; the next it had been rubbed out. The fog did not drift so much as pour, filling the hollows first, then climbing. It swallowed the gorse. It swallowed the path ten paces ahead of him, then five, and the world shrank to a circle of wet grass and the sound of his own breathing. His coat gr | In the extract the focuse shifts from sam to the fog and this effect shows that the fog is a strong point of the story. This starts at line 8. The writer probily put it there to show that it will be a big part of the story later | What 0: restates the shift, calls the fog 'a strong point', no event. Where 1: line 8. Why 1 of 2: 'big part of the story later' is a valid reader expectation; no link to the calm opening/placing. All three strands addressed unprompted. loss=technique (what, placing link). |
| 3 | R2.1 | 3/6 | **Source A** — from a short story, 21st century. Sam, twelve, is walking home across the moor. *(lines 1–7)* Sam had walked the moor path a hundred times. In summer it was a dusty ribbon between the heather, and you could see the roof of the farm from the top of the first rise. Today the sky was the colour of dishwater, and the wind had dropped to nothing. He had his father's old coat on, the one with the torn pocket, and a bag of shopping that knocked against his knee at every step. He was not worried. It was four o'clock. He would be home before the lamps went on. *(lines 8–16)* The fog came up from the valley without a sound. One minute the far wall was there, a grey line stitched across the hill; the next it had been rubbed out. The fog did not drift so much as pour, filling the hollows first, then climbing. It swallowed the gorse. It swallowed the path ten paces ahead of him, then five, and the world shrank to a circle of wet grass and the sound of his own breathing. His coat gr | "pour" the use of the word pour shows that the fog rolded is fast and thick. "climbing" the use of the word climbing shows that the fog is falling to the ground and then bulding it up. "swallowed" the use of the word swallowed shows that the fog looks like it is eating the landscape. | 3 quotations, all from lines 8-16: pour (fast, thick, 1), climbing (builds up, 1 — shaky but valid), swallowed (eating the landscape, 1). 0 of 3 carried a reader effect though the question asks for one each. loss=technique x3. |
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