I will focus on the title, I believe it offers the most marks available.
First thing first, don't analyse. Just react to it as a reader would. You've woken up at 7am and picked up your paper, preferably not the daily mail... that's just a joke. Flicking through half asleep, and then suddenly "giant jellyfish". Bound to get anyones attention. Suddenly the words nuclear becomes so much more dangerous than it already was, that's saying something."Nuclear power plant attacked by giant jellyfish"
So analysis starts now, no more easy stuff. "Nuclear" is a word that is already often linked to danger, something that can devastate entire cities and even cause cancer. This intrigues the reader. The next word is "power". What do you need to read this article? Light, computer and internet. All powered by what? Power. Another way to take the word power is how it represents importance.
"You ever tried going mad without power? It's boring. No one listens to you!"A point you may wish to mention is the inbuilt human reaction the reader will experience. The endangerment of something vital in their life creates an importance to the article. After all if someone said that all the food was running out, wouldn't you want to know why?
The word "plant" is oddly not that important however you could comment on it's link to nature and consequently the "giant jelly fish".
The verb "attacked". Probably gonna be the most important thing to comment on in the title. It's a negative verb, being attacked is rarely a positive thing. It's a verb that can trigger a fight or flee instinct in the reader. This fear is later amplified by the word giant jellyfish. This is due to the word breaking the seemingly peaceful nature of the picture (see below) :
Picture shown in the article
The final part of the title, bar the word "by" but no one loves that word anyway... sorry...., is "giant jellyfish". These two words work together. "Jellyfish" instantly triggers a flee instinct within the reader. And the word giant is an amplification adjective. From dangerous "Jellyfish" to dangerous "Jellyfish". This impacts the reader in many ways.
Hopefully including something as short as that would get you at least 5 or 6 marks. I'll leave the link at the bottom of the article because I simply scratched the surface of the available points to make and didn't even link it to the text, what a rebel eh? I leave the rest to you. Any comments will be answered, with as much help as I can give.
One key thing to remember is that the examiner LOVES to be pointed in the right way. It's not "this word causes this". A simple change to "this word causes the reader to" can be the difference between a B and an A grade.
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