A2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - ELLA 3 & ELLA 4 ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS AND KEY TERMS - ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS – A CHECKLIST

A2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
ELLA 3 & ELLA 4 ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS AND KEY TERMS
ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS – A CHECKLIST
 

Mode Voice - always consider the voice of a text and its effect on its audience. Is the voice spoken/written, third/first person, objective/subjective?	Audience / Purpose	Linguistic Frameworks	Literature Frameworks
WRITTEN MODE NON FICTION e.g. Letter, Magazine article, Newspaper article, Diary, biography, autobiography, travel writing, speeches	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	GRAMMAR e.g. Verbs/adverbs: nouns - concrete, abstract, pronouns: adjectives, comparatives, superlatives	IMAGERY Visual images create strong vivid, life like mental impressions in a readers imagination e.g. metaphor, simile, personification
WRITTEN MODE FICTION – consider 1st /3rd person narrator, setting, character, theme, plot, structure	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	REGISTER e.g. Informal - colloquial, slang, accent,  contractions, ellipsis, elision, expletives Formal- objective, unemotional, complete sentences, correct grammar, appropriate lexis	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
WRITTEN MODE POETRY – consider genre e.g. sonnet, ballad, lyric Form – iambic pentameter, blank verse, stanza, quatrain, free verse		SYNTAX e.g. Sentence types complex, compound, simple Sentence functions declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory Sentence structures Subject, object, main clause, subordinate clause	RHETORICAL DEVICES  e.g. list of three, contrasting pair, direct address, repetition, emotive language, lists, emotive language, hyperbole
WRITING STYLE e.g. descriptive, dialogue, reflective, monologue, narrative – action		LEXIS e.g. denotations, connotations, simple, complex, emotive, rational, neutral, lexical field, low/high frequency, polysyllabic, monosyllabic
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