Language Checklist Flashcards

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Verbs

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Tenses, active, passive, modal, imperative? What effect does this have?

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Mode

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Is it written, spoken or somewhere in between? Is it a letter, report or newspaper?

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Nouns

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Unusual, cliche, coined, foreign, subjects, objects, connotations? Why?

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Adjectives and Adverbs

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Superlatives and comparatives? Why? Lots of adverbs? Why?

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Semantic/ lexical fields

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Why is this field used?

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Punctuation

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Exclamation marks, three part lists, colons, rhetorical questions, hyphens?

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Quotations, references to specialists, celebrities, events or shared knowledge

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Does this make it more convincing? More entertaining or exciting? More academic?

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Technical aspects and phonology

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Onomatopoeia, assonance or alliteration? Similes, metaphors or ellipses? Why are they used and what effect do they have?

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Mood/ Tone

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Informal or formal? Why? Contractions used? Sensationalist? Think why that mood or tone has been used in that situation

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Paragraphs

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Look at length, setup and structure

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Sentence structure

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Simple, compound, complex? Simple sentences are used more for teenage audiences, while complex sentences are more for academic pieces.

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Graphology

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Use of white space, pictures, logos, size of text- what effect does this have?

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Clauses

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Look at clause elements- are they regular? Verb-less clauses are often found in newspaper headlines such as ‘Rooney out for six weeks’

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Pronouns

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Does it use the second personal pronoun ‘you’? (direct address, used to integrate reader). Demonstrative pronouns, indefinite pronouns?

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Anything else you can think of!

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:)

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