QUESTION ONE: PROSE
Refer to Text A, “Why not?”, on page 2 of the resource booklet.
Analyse how the writer sees the personal value of taking a photograph.

In your answer you should include examples of techniques used in the text, and explain their effects. (These might include, but are not limited to: dialogue, metaphor, and verb use.)

In this text the writer is questioned about why he takes photos, he uses techniques such as personification, metaphors, dialogue and similes to show how he sees the personal value of taking a photograph. “Lost to the wind, unless someone sticks out a hand to catch it, clutches it tight so that even if it’s been torn and crumpled it cant slip away.” this metaphor represents capturing a photo of something, a moment will be gone with time unless you catch it, but you cant physically catch a sunrise, however you can take a photo of it. Even if a photo has been torn and crumpled you can still hold onto it. His personal value of this photograph is that he will forever be able to look back at this moment and cherish it.

“I’d tell him that this Tuesday morning is sitting in my pocket now, safe from time” the use of this metaphor tells us that the writer is holding the Tuesday morning safe, this refers to the photograph he took that is now on his phone in his pocket. We can assume the writer is worried about moments being gone with time, having a photo of something means you can always hold onto and protect a moment from being forgotten.

“When I’m old, when my face is tissue-paper tearing with every smile, I wont have to grasp frantically at my memories as they fall away like sand in an hourglass.” This simile “like sand in an hourglass” is used as an hourglass is a symbol of time and the sand falling through (deteriorating like sand) is the time slipping away, so as he grows older he begins so forget his memories and he is frightened of that. His logic behind taking photos is for this reason,

QUESTION TWO: POETRY

Refer to Text B, “Exposure”, on page 3 of the resource booklet.
Analyse how the writer shows the challenge the musicians face in preparing for the photograph.
In your answer you should include examples of techniques used in the text, and explain their effects. (These might include, but are not limited to: contrast, metaphor, and emotive language.)

This text shows musicians facing challenges to prepare for photographs. The writer shows their struggle through the use of techniques like