A2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND TEXT PRODUCTION
FRAMEWORKS – A CHECKLIST
WRITTEN MODE NON FICTION
e.g. Letter, Magazine article,
Newspaper article, Diary, biography, autobiography, travel writing, speeches
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AUDIENCE
the audience the writer targets. This could be general, specific, young or old, male or female. There maybe two specific audiences e.g. children and their parents
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GRAMMAR e.g.
Verbs/adverbs: nouns - concrete, abstract, pronouns: adjectives, comparatives, superlatives
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POETIC IMAGERY
Visual images create strong vivid, life like mental impressions in a readers imagination e.g.
metaphor, simile, personification
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WRITTEN MODE
FICTION – consider 1st /3rd person narrator, setting, character, theme, plot, structure
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PURPOSE generally texts inform, persuade, entertain, instruct [remember that a text will have a main purpose and at least one other secondary purpose] But each individual text will have a specific purpose e.g. to create vivid
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REGISTER e.g.
Informal - colloquial, slang, accent, contractions, ellipsis, elision, expletives Formal- objective, unemotional, complete sentences, correct grammar, appropriate lexis
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POETIC PHONOLOGY sound patterning creates harmony. Usually the effect is pleasing but can be used to create tension e.g. alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia, assonance, rhythm, sibilance
See London and Composed
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WRITTEN MODE
POETRY – consider genre e.g. sonnet, ballad, lyric
Form – iambic pentameter, blank verse, stanza, quatrain, free verse
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SYNTAX e.g.
Sentence types complex, compound, simple Sentence functions declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory
Sentence structures
Subject, object, main clause, subordinate clause
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RHETORICAL DEVICES e.g. list of three, contrasting pair, direct address, repetition, emotive language, lists, emotive language, hyperbole
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WRITING STYLE
e.g. descriptive, dialogue, reflective, monologue,
narrative – action
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LEXIS e.g.
denotations, connotations, simple, complex, emotive, rational, neutral, lexical field, low/high frequency, polysyllabic, monosyllabic
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SPOKEN MODE e.g. non-fluency features
e.g. false starts, fillers, repetition, pauses fluency features e.g. adjacency pairs, discourse markers, signposting, latch on
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