Progression Test Stage 8 English 2017 Paper 2 With Mark Scheme

1. Reading comprehension—Mafatu’s fear of the sea, emotional response to danger, shift in mood and identity formation (“Stout Heart”)
2. Language techniques—personification (“it seized the frail craft”), imagery for tension, mood change indicator, metaphorical phrases about the sea
3. Character analysis—Mafatu’s mother (bravery, nurturing), Mafatu’s transformation from fearful to courageous, memory and flashback structure
4. Textual effects—quotation impact analysis, rhetorical question conclusion, symbolic renaming, foreshadowing through narrative tone
5. Writing task—narrative on facing danger, setting and character choices, story arc including conflict and resolution, tone consistency
6. Assessment goals—literary feature identification, emotional inference, structure and pacing in storytelling, precise and vivid descriptive writing