Text Conventions Flashcards
1
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What are the conventions of an article
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- Heading/Headline & Subheadings
- Title
- Formal language
- Full paragraphs
- Informative
- Factual (Stats & Data)
- Unbiased → can be opinionated
- Professional, expert reliable
- Inverted triangle
- Direct speech
- Small paragraphs
- Omniscient
- To expose / investigate
- There often is an objective
2
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What are the conventions of a speech
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- Persuasive devices Eg.(Anaphora, epistrophe, symploce, rhetorica, device, hypophora, sarcasm, emotive language, sarcasm)
- Opening
- Ending
- Direct address
- Tone
- Tense
- Live
- Public Audience in mind
- Fluency features
3
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What are the conventions of a news article
A
1., Headings & Subheadings
2. Factual Language
3. Formal Tone
4. Photographs & Captions
5. Longer Paragraphs
6. Eyewitness / Expert quotes/opinions & accounts
7. Stats / Evidence
8. Introduction
9. Inverted triangle of journalism [most to least important facts]
10. Objective
11. Headline
12. Can involve the government?
13. Jargon /Lexical field around news
14. Rhetorical questions
4
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What are the conventions of an autobiography
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- Personal
- First Person Narrative
- Public audience in mind
- Facts
- Anecdotes
- Someone’s story/experience
- Colloquial language
- past tense
- rhetorical question
5
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What are the conventions of a diary
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- Date of Entry
- “Dear Diary…”
- Personal, first person narrative (“I”)
- Informal, (sometimes) chatty, conversational tone
- No public audience in mind (only to yourself)
- Chronological order (or flashback - analepsis, flashforward - prolepsis)
- Emotive language
- Thoughts and feelings
- Anecdote
- (sometimes) humour
- Fragmented sentences, long run-on sentences
- Deliberate use of tenses (past/present/future)
- Time conjunctions (now, before, after)
- Figurative language (simile, metaphor, symbolism, personification)
- Detailed observation
6
Q
What are the conventions of an advertisment
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- Key ‘sales idea’
- Hard sell / soft sell
- Single point of view instead of balanced
- Catchy headings, captions, slogans, logos
- Direct address ‘You’
- Vivid imagery
- ‘Call to Action’
- Evidence / customer reviews
- Factual, informative language
- Short sentences, varied sentence structures
- Persuasive devices (anaphora, metaphors)
- Intensifiers
7
Q
What are the conventions of a travel writing
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- Lexical field
- Vivid imagery(5 senses)
- descriptive(zoom → drop → flashback)
- mix of 1st and 3rd perspective
- Factual - stats and data
- colloquial
- humor
8
Q
What are the conventions of a narrative
A
- 3rd Person or 1st Person Perspective
- Determined format(Exposition → Problem → Rising Action → Climax → Falling Action → Resolution)
- Vivid imagery
- Characters
- Motivation for characters to develop
- Appearance
- For Character : A goal, A specific struggle, A clear visible voice (opinion/perspective), A backstory
- Inciting Incident : The casual inciting incident, The coincidental inciting incident, The ambiguous inciting incident
- Narrative Conflict: Character vs Character, Character vs Society, Character vs Nature, Character vs Technology, Character vs Supernatural, Character vs Self
9
Q
What are the conventions of a letter
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- “Dear..” - Salutation
- Signing off [eg: Sincerely..]
- “Subject:”
- Address e.g. 4th Rocklea Road, Bulleen, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Formal language (could be informal letter, with more informal language)
- Direct address
- Can be opinionated
- In response to something
- Body paragraphs
- Concluding paragraph
10
Q
What are the conventions of a Brochure/leaflet
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- Imperatives
- Subtitles
- Headings and Sub heading
- Facts and Statistics
- Short / minor sentences
- Short paragraph
- Sometimes persuasive ; informing
- About places
- Found in hospitals, traveling , airplanes , musuems etc.
- Images
- Slogan
11
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What are the conventions of a podcast
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- Name of podcast
- Title of particular episode
- A central idea for the episode
- A main host
- Guests
- Brief introductions/ Salutations
- Interview/discussion/solo host talking about the topic
- Brief closing
- Referencing to the podcast being part of a series/link to next episode
- Sponsors
- Time stamps
- Informal language
- Chatty and conversational tone
- Fluency features
- Some kind of music in between
- Small paragraphs
- Dialects, Humor, Colloquial language/lexis
- Facts and Statistics
12
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What are the conventions of a descriptive writing
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- Present tense
- Description of weather, nature and other natural phenomenon
- Camera lens technique
- Only one moment (not a story)
- Zoom in/zoom out
- Flashback
- Vivid imagery (5 senses)
- Simile, metaphor
- Verbs, adverbs and prepositions that convey movement, status
- Contrast and juxtaposition
- Compound and complex sentences
- Repetition
Prop → Zoom → Shift and zoom → Flash → End
13
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What are the conventions of a blog
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- Directly makes contact with the reader
- Shares info about personal life
- Expressing opinion
- To entertain
- heading/subheadings
- Direct address
- Emotive language
- Can be humorous
- Online
10 informal/chatty tone - Offers advice/guidance
- Visuals and or audio
- lists/bullet points
- Hyperlink
14
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What are the conventions of a review
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- Title and subheadings
- Overview of what is being reviewed - the key facts
- Star rating, age rating - only if suitable (eg. kids’ movie for 9+)
- Convey the writer’s (reviewer’s) expertise on the topic
- Expresses an opinion
- Makes comparisons - between the subject and other similar things
- Informal, chatty language to engage the reader
- Written from a first person point of view
- Often structured in short(ish) paragraphs
- Statistics can be used
- Humour is often present
- Emotive language may be present
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