Concepts
An outlook or a way of thinking or feeling about something.
Attitudes
Our values underlie our attitudes. Attitudes can be expressed by what we say, do and wear.
The atmosphere or feeling in a particular text.
Mood
For example, a text might create a sombre, reflective, exhilarating or menacing mood. Mood can be conveyed through elements such as tone, word choice, syntax and imagery.
The features of language that support meaning.
Language Features
This might include sentence structure, word classes, vocabulary, punctuation, figurative language etc. It can also include visual language.
The environment in which a text is created in or responded to.
Context
We can consider how texts are shaped by various types of contexts such as authorial, historical, cultural, social, political, personal or generic.
What will you write in the comprehending section?
2 SARs
250-300 words
What should every composition have regardless of question or genre at the start?
Title
The word has an open meaning and can be interpreted as understandings, thoughts, notions, opinions, views or beliefs.
Ideas
We generally state themes as ideas when analysing literature or media.
Language used to discuss language.
Metalanguage
For example, language used to discuss film or literary study, such as mise-en-scène, symbolism, characterisation, or language used to talk about grammatical terms, such as sentence, clause or conjunction.
The techniques, features or elements that belong to a particular genre.
Convention
In order to belong to a particular genre, a text should adhere to, abide by or follow the conventions of that genre.
An idea, concern or argument developed in a text usually centred around an aspect of human experience.
Theme
We generally discuss themes as ideas e.g. the theme of a text might be love and the idea conveyed could be how love involves sacrifice. Texts have multiple themes.
What are three things you get marked on in section 1?
Precise
Concise
Addressing question
Showing comprehension
depth of understanding
What needs to be clear to the marker by the end of the first paragraph?
The genre, audience and purpose
Things which directly or indirectly affect a person or members of a society and are considered to be problems.
Issues
These matters of personal or public concern are often in dispute. They might be social, economic, environmental etc.
The distinct personality of a piece of writing created through syntax, punctuation, vocabulary choices, persona and dialogue.
Voice
Texts often contain ‘multiple voices’. These are the views, positions, ideas and perspectives of individuals or groups.
The categories into which texts are grouped.
Genre
It might include genre of form (e.g. poetry, prose, drama, non-fiction) or genre of subject matter (e.g. romance, mystery, science fiction etc).
The way people, events, issues or subjects are presented in a text.
Representation
The term implies that texts are not mirrors of the real world; they are constructions of ‘reality’, partially shaped through the writer’s use of conventions and techniques.
The way a reader, viewer or audience reacts or responds to a text.
Response
This might include how they feel (emotional response), what they think or consider (intellectual response) or what they do (behavioural response).
What are the three rhetorical appeals that should be evenly embedded into a persuasive composition?
Pathos, logos and ethos
Emotion, logic and credibility
A position from which things may be viewed or considered.
Perspective
It is more than an opinion; it is a viewpoint informed by one or more contexts. People may have different perspectives on events or issues due to their age, gender, social position, beliefs, values etc.
Language techniques used in argument to persuade audiences.
Rhetorical Devices
They might appeal to logos, ethos or pathos. Examples include rhetorical questions, repetition, hyperbole, tricolon, facts/statistics and inclusive language.
The ways in which a narrator may be related to the story.
Narrative Point of View
For example, the narrator might take the role of first or third person, omniscient or limited (in knowledge of events), reliable or unreliable in interpreting what happens. Some texts have multiple narrative points of view.
The various processes of communication.
Mode
These modes include linguistic (written or spoken language), visual (images, symbols, colours), gestural (body language, gestures), spatial (layout, organisation), and auditory (sound, music).
Various components of a text that contribute to its visual presentation and impact.
Visual Elements
They include things like composition, framing, representation of action or reaction, shot size, social distance and camera angles.
List three ways to manipulate your composition to impress the marker and demonstrate your skills.
Structural features
Language patterns
Manipulation of genre
The process of analysing and making meaning from a text.
Interpretation
It involves critically examining the content, structure, language features, and stylistic choices of a text to uncover deeper layers of meaning, themes, and messages.
describes the way the ‘voice’ is delivered.
Tone
For example, the tone of a voice or the tone in a passage of writing could be friendly or angry or persuasive.
The shape and structure of a text.
Form
Literary texts, for example, include a broad range of forms such as novels, poetry, short stories, plays, fiction, multimodal texts, and non-fiction.
The things that we hold as important, good, desirable or worthwhile.
Values
They guide or motivate our attitudes or actions. We can have individual values or group values (cultural values).
The ways in which aspects of texts are arranged and how they affect meaning.
Stylistic Features
Examples of stylistic features are lexical choice, syntax, narrative point of view, voice, structure, language patterns and language features, both written and visual.
What are the three forms you can write in?
What techniques or conventions are expected of each?
Interpretive - narrative conventions, language features and persuasive techniques.
Imaginative - narrative conventions and language features
Persuasive - persuasive techniques and rhetorical appeal