Grammar for critical literacy wk 12

Question 1

What is critical literacy?

Answer 1

Critical literacy is the ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships.

Question 2

What does critical literacy do?

Answer 2

• Encourage students to interrogate societal issues & institutions like family, poverty, education, equity & equality.
• Enables people to interpret and create messages in the modern world.

Question 3

When would we select the ‘passive voice’?

Answer 3

• When we want to take a subtle/ non confrontational approach. “The lollies were eaten”.
• When we don’t want to shed light on who did the action.

Question 4

What is the active voice used for?

Answer 4

• clarity and to shed light on the doer. “The puppy ate the biscuits”
• More of an accuser approach.

Question 5

what are nonsense words?

Answer 5

a word having no conventionally accepted meaning.

baboonery
gibberish

Question 6

What are spoonerisms?

Answer 6

Spoonerisms are words or phrases in which letters or syllables get swapped.

“a lack of pies = a pack of lies”

Question 7

What are neologisms?

Answer 7

Neologisms are new terms, words, or phrases, that may be commonly used in everyday life but have yet to be formally accepted as constituting mainstream language.

“troll”
“ego surfer”
“noob”

Question 8

What are puns?

Answer 8

A pun is a play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests 2 or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings.

• The life of a patient of hypertension is always at steak.
• A boiled egg every morning is hard to beat.

Question 9

Irony is

Answer 9

> Rhetorical irony- saying something contrary to what is meant. “I had a great time ( i was bored).

> Dramatic irony- stating or doing something unaware of its contrast in real situations.

> Situational irony- Events that are opposite to expectations.
“Santa doesn’t like Christmas”.