Question 11 mark
Twain describes a steamboat captain who "stands by the big bell, calm, imposing, the envy of all". What does imposing mean here?
IGCSE English Language, 2027 syllabus.
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Sample answer5 marks
Text B is a traveller’s account of a town after an earthquake and the great wave that followed.
Assess the writer's attitude towards the destruction he saw. Use three details from Text B to support your answer.
The writer describes the destruction in detail. He says the coast looked 'as if a thousand ships had been wrecked', which shows how much was ruined. He also notices a rock 'six feet long, three broad, and two thick' that had been thrown up on the beach.
Fix this firstSay exactly what the attitude is, in a precise word, before you support it.
- The attitude named: Not yet. Name the attitude in one precise word or phrase: admiring, sceptical, frustrated, and so on.
- Details from the text: Partly there. 2 details quoted from the text.“'as if a thousand ships had been wrecked'”
- How the words show it: Partly there. You explain how the words you quote show the attitude.“He says the coast looked 'as if a thousand ships had been wrecked', which shows how much was ruined.”
- Your own words. The answer is in your own words.
Then
- Add 1 more short quotation from the text.