Exploring Text Types
A point which directly with an assertion and provides the opposite view.
What is a counter-agrument?
What is a protagonist?
The term used when a pupil addresses the questions by annotating the key words and phrases in the question itself.
What is decoding?
The first thing you do when analysing an unfamiliar text.
What is get an overview?
A specific task set by someone.
What is a brief?
Technical or over-complicated language used in specific fields.
What is jargon?
Refers to stories that begin in the middle of the action.
What is in medias res?
What is 15 marks?
What is modality?
The length the short writing task should be.
What is 400 words?
For this type of writing, topics could include theatre, film, food, music, etc.
What is review writing?
A key component of narrative writing, it consists of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.
What is a plot?
What is 150 - 200 words?
What is twice?
Working through the text or working through the different elements are two options.
What is structuring a commentary?
What is soft-sell?
The particular language and grammar usage appropriate to a group of people, role or situation.
What is register?
To state something as a fact.
What is assert?
To achieve success on the short writing task and commentary, you should know this about the various types of writing.
What are the conventions?
The difference between present simple and present perfect.
What is present simple is current action; present perfect recently occurred.
The visual representation that shows the elements of a simple plot.
What is Freytag's Pyramid?
The sentence construction and order of words in a sentence.
What is syntax?
The concepts of a passage which you should be analysing.
What are form, structure and language?
In writing the commentary, the writer should used this type of quote.
What is an embedded quote?