Unseen Crime Text

Question 1

What is the usual AO1 for unseen crime text

Answer 1

• well structured and there is some impressive writing.

-The task is always in mind and the candidate uses literary

• critical concepts and terminology in an assured way.

Question 2

What is the usual AO2 for unseen crime text

Answer 2

• There is perceptive understanding of the way the writer shapes meanings
• strong use of methods
• strong in writing about structure and the extracts form.

Question 3

What is the usual AO3 for unseen crime text

Answer 3

• Engagement with social, gender, legal and literary contexts.
• These contexts are connected to the crime writing genre in a thoughtful and assured way.

Question 4

What is the usual AO4 for unseen crime text

Answer 4

How the elements of crime are used in the text

Question 5

What is the usual AO5 for unseen crime text

Answer 5

• How meanings are shaped to affect the reader
• Different discussions and assumptions.

Question 6

What should the introduction of unseen crime text generally be?

Answer 6

• A brief overview what the extract
• The crime elements you are most likely going to write about

Question 7

When did crime fiction emerge as a recognisable literary genre?

Answer 7

Mid 19th century

Question 8

What 3 types of crime texts are there?

Answer 8

Detective fiction, a revenge tragedy, an account of a life lost to crime

Question 9

What are the 4 main motives in crime text?

Answer 9

Love, money, danger, death

Question 10

What are the main authorial methods

Answer 10

Colour
Similes
Metaphors
Alliteration
Motifs (recurring images)
The speaker’s voice
Characterisation
rhetorical questions
personification
imagery
lexis
hyperbole

Question 11

What are the key elements of crime?

Answer 11

• Central motives, love, money, danger, death
• Punishment, Justice, Retribution, Injustice
• The structural pattern, how it moves from crisis to order
• The way crime is used to comment on society
• The type of crime text itself detective fiction, postmodern novel
• How settings a created
• The nature of the crime
• Inclusion of violence, murder, betrayal, theft
• The investigation that leads to their capture
• Guilt, remorse & confession
• The creation of the criminal and their nemesis
• The sense there will always be resolution and the criminal will be punished
• The victims inclusion suffering

Question 12

Describe post modern literature

Answer 12

Originated in the 1950s and early 1960s