 Here are three key words to use to get a grade nine in your analysis according to Sarah Teachers English So most of you are really good at identifying your quotes and your techniques But then when it comes to analysis you either start waffling or you lose marks So here are three key things that we want you to stop doing and start saying instead The first one is stop saying this suggests and start saying this connotes Well, this has connotations of something the second thing is to stop telling us that this means something I don't need to know the meaning of the word. I know it. I'm good What I would like you to tell me instead is what this makes the examiner Imagine feel read or think or use the reader. What does it make you question? And then the third thing I would like you to stop saying is this implies and start talking about what things actually symbolize All of these phrases really force you to deepen your analysis and we know that that is where your marks are