Unit 1 :)

Question 1

What is the purpose?

Answer 1

The reason why a text has been written.

Question 2

What is the audience?

Answer 2

The readers or listeners to a text.

Question 3

What is the context?

Answer 3

The background or situation to a text or its writer.

Question 4

How does the context affect a text?

Answer 4

By altering the language/accent/formality/words based on the situation.

Question 5

What are some factors that affect context?

Answer 5

Social - informal/formal
Geographical - accents/dialects
Purpose - general or specific

Question 6

How does the audience affect a text?

Answer 6

Language alters based on who you are addressing. Sibling vs Interviewer vs Teacher.

Question 7

How does the purpose affect a text?

Answer 7

Can be specific.
Can have multiple or hybrid purposes.
E.g. persuading; entertaining; informing; instructing.

Question 8

What is form?

Answer 8

The outside of a text:
- Text type
- Shape
- Presentation
- How it appeals to audience and purpose

Question 9

What is structure?

Answer 9

The inside of a text:
- Order
- Organization
- Patterns
- Development

Question 10

What is a lexical field?

Answer 10

Describes the way certain words in a text relate to the same thing or idea.

Question 11

What is denotation?

Answer 11

The literal meaning of a word.

Question 12

What is connotation?

Answer 12

An idea/feeling a word invokes.

Question 13

What are figurative devices?

Answer 13

Devices used to represent an idea beyond its literal meaning.

Question 14

What is a declarative sentence?

Answer 14

Making a statement.

Question 15

What is imperative sentence?

Answer 15

Gives an order/command.

Question 16

What is an interrogative sentence?

Answer 16

Asks a question.

Question 17

What is an exclamatory sentence?

Answer 17

Express surprise/shock.

Question 18

What is a narrator?

Answer 18

The person who tells/recounts events.

Question 19

What is the narrative viewpoint?

Answer 19

The way the narrator views the world/opinions they express.

Question 20

What is the perspective?

Answer 20

The angle from which a writer views or experiences events.

Question 21

What is first person narrative?

Answer 21

Uses “I” or “we”.
Gives insight into a character’s innermost thoughts.

Question 22

What is second person narrative?

Answer 22

Uses “you”.
Rarely used in narratives. Speaks directly to the reader.

Question 23

What is third person narrative?

Answer 23

Uses “she”, “he”, and “they”.
Can create more distance between the narrator and the reader. Sometimes allows the narrator to have a greater overview of a larger number of characters.

Question 24

What is an omniscient narrator?

Answer 24

A narrator who sees or understands everything.

Question 25

What is a fallable narrator?

Answer 25

An unreliable narrator.

Question 26

What is a limited narrator?

Answer 26

A narrator who has some knowledge of events, thoughts, feelings, but not full understanding.

Question 27

What is an unusual narrator?

Answer 27

Any sort of narrator who does not fall into the usual categories.

Question 28

What is direct speech?

Answer 28

Exact words that were said (dialogue) expressed using quotation marks or inverted commas.

Question 29

What is indirect speech?

Answer 29

The gist of what has been said, but not word for word.

Question 30

What is evaluating?

Answer 30

Giving both sides to an argument.

Question 31

What is analyzing?

Answer 31

Picking out details to find out how the text works.