Form
The author's reason for writing the text
What is "Purpose"?
When focus changes: external to internal, general to specific. Change of subject or theme.
What is shift?
Specific word choice used to fulfill author's purpose
What is Lexis?
Introduction and the ending, Development, Contrast, Shifts, and Pace
What are elements of Structure?
Date of entry, Personal, Describes event, Describes thoughts, Formal or informal, salutation, 1st person, familiar close.
What is a diary or journal entry?
The targeted group of people a text is aimed towards
What is "Audience"?
The juxtaposition between different elements in the text, When ideas in the text clash, opposites.
What is contrast?
a way of expressing oneself that does not use a word's strict or realistic meaning
What is Figurative Language? or What is Figure of speech?
Lexis, Figures of speech, persuasive techniques, Grammar, syntax, punctuation.
What elements of language?
A clear subject, A great headline, A great headline, A solution, Addresses a compelling topic, personal connection to the topic.
What is a blog?
Advertisements, brochures, leaflets, editorials, news stories, articles, reviews, blogs, investigative journalism, letters, podcasts, (auto)biographies, travel writing, diaries, essays, scripted speech, narrative writing, and descriptive writing.
catchy heading, subheading, cont. prose, bullets, call to action, byline, fig lang, imagery
What is Genre?
What are genre elements?
List 3 types of sentences
What are Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex.
Similes, metaphors, oxymorons, juxtaposition, personification, hyperboles, anaphora, zeugma, synecdoche, asyndeton, onomatopoeia, vivid imagery, etc.
What are literary elements and/or figures of speech?
Genre, Audience, and Purpose.
What are elements of Form?
Starts off with headings & subheadings summing up each section, Includes listing and bullet points, Split into small sections, Composed of small paragraphs, Images (not for AICE exam), 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.
How is leaflet different from the rest?
What is a leaflet, brochure, pamphlet or trifold?
Leaflets have a call to action
Feeling or attitude towards a piece of text, expressed by words.
What is "Tone"?
Name the 5 types of development possibilities in a piece of writing
What is chronological, cause and effect, problem/solution, Compare/contrast, and descriptive.
IF there is no discernible figurative Language in a piece (you can't really find and example of fig lang) -- what should you say about the fig lang?
What is NOTHING? If you have nothing to say about figurative Language in a piece --do not mention it.
The social, cultural or emotional meaning associated with a word.
What is connotation?
Should have a date, name and address, Should have a greeting and a sign off, signature.
What is a letter?
The degree of formality in a piece of writing.
What is "Register"?
How fast the text progresses.
What is pace?
Ethos, logos, pathos
What are persuasive techniques?
List 2 of the 4 Sentence categories
What are Declarative, Interrogative, Exclamatory, and Imperative?
Writing that uses the 5 senses, figurative language, brings the story to life.
What is descriptive writing?