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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