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What is a writers audience?
A group of people they have in mind when writing
(Content, language, vocabulary - clues at audience)
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What is the writers purpose?
Reason it had been written-to argue/persuade
-to advise
-to entertain
-to inform
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What is the difference between writing to argue and writing to persuade?
Argue-wants to get the reader to agree with them
Persuade- wants the reader to do something
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What do writers want when writing to advise?
The want the readers to follow their suggestion, it will be calm, less emotional
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What does literary fiction do?
Entertains the reader
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What is literary non-fiction?
Entertaining but factual, they inform the reader but still aim to entertain
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What are common features of a 19th century text?
Written quite formally, (context) social classes wer divided, industrial revolution -> more jobs, few children went to school, Christianity was big influence, science challenged religious ideas, women expected to look after home and children
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What is tone and what effects can it create?
Th feeling that the words are written with which creates a certain mood, {informal-personal,familiar}{formal-serious,distant}lots of exclamativas can make a text emotive and passionate,
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What s a metaphor?
Describe something by saying it is something else
More powerful images, more creative descriptions
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What is a simile?
Describes something by saying that it is like something else
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What is an analogy?
Compares one idea to another, provide powerful and memorable images, makes it easier for the reader to grasp the point,
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What is personification?
Describing a thing as a person, makes a description more vivid, comes to life,
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What is alliteration and onomatopoeia?
Use the sounds of words to create an effect;ALLITERATION close together with the same sound- grabs the readers attention, emphasises key points, ONOMATOPOEIA words sound like the noises they describe, makes descriptions more powerful, sense of hearing he
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What is irony?
Saying the opposite of what you mean, makes it more humorous and light-hearted
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What is sarcasm?
Language that has mocking or scornful tone, insult or make fun of something, shows writer is angry or annoyed,
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What is rhetoric?
1)rhetorical questions-reader engages with text think they are making up their own mind but the writer is manipulating them
2)list of three-to emphasise
3)hyperbole-exaggeration very powerful
4)antithesis-opposing words put together to show contrast
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-to advise
-to entertain
-to inform

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