English Language Commentary
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- Created on: 29-04-15 20:02
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- Commentary
- Form
- Letter
- Diary
- Speech
- Newspaper / magazine article
- Novel
- Short story
- Advertisement
- Interview
- Context
- Purpose
- What is the text for?
- Persuasive
- To advertise
- To change an opinion or behaviour
- To gain support / political following
- Report
- To report events
- Descriptive
- Persuasive
- How is the text framed?
- Clues as to what a text might be doing and why
- Audience
- Level of formality
- Formal
- Colloquial / idiomatic
- Informal
- How is the text framed?
- Level of formality
- Audience
- What is the text for?
- Audience
- Level of formality
- Formal
- Colloquial / idiomatic
- Informal
- Level of formality
- What is the text's situation (temporal, geopgraphical, political)
- Purpose
- Register
- Lexical field
- Language
- Imagery
- Metaphors
- Similes
- Figures of speech
- Word choice
- Connotations
- Characterisation
- How does the word choice create a character?
- Register
- Comparative/superlative
- Allusions
- Biblical
- Historical
- Political
- Literary
- Alliteration
- Onomatopoeia
- Imagery
- Structure
- Grammatical
- Sentence length
- Use of imperative(Listen!) / Exclamation (Ouch!) /
- Tense
- Direct speech
- Paragraphs
- Length
- Internal structure
- Pronouns
- First person "I"
- Second person "you"
- Third person "S/he/it"
- "We" - Direct address to include audience
- Ellipsis
- ...
- Something missing
- Repetition
- Grammatical
- Tone
- Irony
- Understatement
- Casual
- Form
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