COMMENTARY Flashcards
Order of paragraphs?
- Introduction
- Structure/mode
- Register
- Style and tone
What does para 1 involve?
Introduction:
CAMP
- Keep it simple and short.
What does para 2 involve?
Mode - How did you make your adaptation suitable for the mode of the text? - specific features used for this type of text?
Layout - How did you make the layout/graphology/paragraphing suitable for the genre/reader/listener/audience.
- Don’t spend too long on this, not that important!
What does para 3 involve?
Register and tone - Effects of lexis and grammar choices appropriate to the genre/audience/purpose? (high/low frequency, latinate/germanic, emotive lang. etc)
What does para 4 involve?
Stylistic featues - specific to genre (rhetorical devices, figurative lang - metaphors, similies)
Semantics - semantic field used, why?
Tone/message - overall tone, message promoted?