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Evaluate a structural choice — volta

GCSE · English Language · OCR · SC2.5Plan, organise and emphasise ideas effectively using paragraphing, cohesive devices and rhetorical features

Question

Read this extract from a persuasive speech: "Climate change is real. The evidence is overwhelming. The projections are catastrophic. We have been telling you this for thirty years.

And yet, here we are."

(a) Identify the structural device used between the two paragraphs. [1 mark] (b) Explain the effect of this device on the reader. [3 marks] (c) Evaluate: is this the most effective structural choice the writer could have made at this moment? [4 marks]

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