Formats/Genres
Date of entry, Personalized, Describes event, Describes thoughts, Formal or informal, Often contains a greeting to the writing, such as “Dear Diary,”
What is a diary or journal extry?
The type of text written (e.g. news article, speech)
What is the genre?
Imperative, declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory
What are the four sentence functions?
Any language that isn’t written/used in a literal sense
What is figurative language?
7:40am in my assigned testing room
What time do I need to be checking in for my exam?
To a certain person or group of people, Should have a date, name and address, Sender: the person who is writing the letter, Recipient: the person who receives the letter, Should have a greeting and a sign off
What is a letter?
The group(s) of people that are originally targeted by the author (ex: Young People or Aliens from Mars)
Who is the audience?
period, parenthesis, dashes, hyphen, commas, semi-colon, exclamation mark, question mark
What are different types of punctuation?
Specific word choice used to fulfill author's purpose
What are diction/lexis?
Blue or Black pens ONLY and maybe a highlighter if I so choose.
What are the items I should bring with me to testing?
Interviewer, Interviewee, Formal or informal language, Lots of dialogue, Consists of a back-and-forth conversation between the interviewer and interviewee, A written translation of a spoken conversation or of a performance intended to be spoken, Discusses a certain topic or idea
What is a script, interview, transcript or podcast?
Why the text is written or spoken
What is the purpose?
Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex
What are the 4 sentence types?
A phrase or sentence that is consistent in a single letter known commonly as tongue twisters
What is alliteration?
2 hours and 15 minutes
How long is Paper 1?
Starts off with headings & subheadings summing up each section, Includes listing and bullet points, Split into small sections, Composed of small paragraphs, Images, Informational or persuading the audience, Commonly created as to introduce a setting and/or product and dives deep into the importance of the topic with formatted sections, headings, and subheadings
What is a leaflet, brochure, pamphlet or trifold?
The use of formal or informal writing to achieve the authors goal
What is register?
Ethos, Logos, Pathos, Kairos
What are the 4 rhetorical appeals?
A figurative, non-literal phrase that presents a meaning beyond the literal interpretation of the words
What is an idiom?
2 hours
How long is Paper 2?
Uses formal language or colloquial language depending on the audience, Can be used to inform, persuade, entertain, or motivate the audience, Spoken, Ideas, words, phrases are repeated (Ex: “We Shall”), Uses transition words and sums up at the end, Uses multiple forms of languages in order to inform or persuade, Ideologies are implemented as impactful and powerful towards the targeted audience
What is a speech?
Attitude of the speaker (ex. Informal, formal, or an emotional word!) and how it leaves the reader feeling after reading the text
What is the tone?
The arrangement of the words create both style and change the meaning of the sentences
A specific phrase or topic that has been overused to the point where its original meaning has been lost.
What is a cliche?
600-900 words
How long should each SECTION of the exam be?