Unit 1.1
The situation or background to a text or its writer
What is Context?
Another word for type, but more useful because it relates to the shape and overall presentation of a text
What is form?
A suggested meaning or way of viewing particular language choices or ideas in text.
What is interpretation?
A person who tells or recounts events.
Who is the narrator?
Short and to the point.
What is concise?
The reason why a text has been written, and what the writer is seeking to achieve.
What is purpose?
A continuous text as you would find in a novel, rather than in a poem
What is prose?
Standing for or representing an idea beyond the literal meaning.
What is figurative?
First person narrative, second person narrative, third person narrative.
What is narrative point of view?
A word or phrase you refer to directly which has come from another text.
What is quotation?
Something made by combining two different elements.
What is hybrid?
A familiar word which refers to the way a text is organized and ordered. It can relate both to the whole text (a story with a middle, beginning and end) or to features of a text (the way the sentences in a paragraph are ordered, repeating patterns and so on)
What is structure?
A linguistic term that describes the way certain words in a text relate to, or seem to be about, the same thing or idea.
What are lexical fields?
A narrator who sees or understands everything.
What is omniscient?
A word or phrase which links what is being said to other topics.
What is discourse marker?
After leaving school, a student decides to work for a year as a volunteer for a local charity. At the end of the year, the student returns to their previous school to give a speech about their experience to other students. Write the speech. Create a sense of a positive enthusiastic attitude towards the experience. The Audience is?
Who are the members of the school?
sentences with a main clause (a clause which can stand on its own and has a subject and a verb, like a sentence) plus at least one subordinate or dependent clause (a clause which cannot stand alone and may have no subject or verb)
What is a complex sentence?
A word or phrase used to link ideas together in a text.
What is connective?
Words such as 'best', 'greatest','fewest', 'most'
What is superlative?
Words which have the same pronunciation but different meanings or spellings.
What are homophones?
What a divine night it is! I have just returned from Kentish Town; a calm twilight pervades the clear sky; the lamp-like moon is hung out in heaven, and the bright west retains the dye of sunset. If such weather would continue, I should write again; the lamp of thought is again illumined in my heart, and the fire descends from heaven that kindles it. Such, my loved Shelley, now ten years ago, at this season, did we first meet, and these were the very scenes – that churchyard, with its sacred tomb, was the spot where first love shone in your dear eyes. The stars of heaven are now your country, and your spirit drinks beauty and wisdom in those spheres, and I, beloved, shall one day join you. Nature speaks to me of you. In towns and society I do not feel your presence; but there you are with me, my own, my unalienable! I feel my powers again, and this is, of itself, happiness; the eclipse of winter is passing from my mind. I shall again feel the enthusiastic glow of composition, again, as I pour forth my soul upon paper, feel the winged ideas arise, and enjoy the delight of expressing them. Study and occupation will be a pleasure, and not a task, and this I shall owe to sight and companionship of trees and meadows, flowers and sunshine. From The
The purpose of this Journal from Mary Shelley.
What is to explain the continuing strength of her love?
Spoken language shown by speech marks or inverted commas
What is direct speech?
A kind of personification which gives human emotions and traits to inanimate objects or nature; for example, referring to weather features as reflecting a mood.
What is pathetic fallacy?
The particular angle by which a writer views or experiences events.
What is perspective?
Words used to express a personal appraisal or judgement.
What is evaluative lexis?