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Component 2: Comparative Analysis
Quick questions on Context of production and reception (AO3) - Edexcel A-Level English Language and Literature
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What is integrating context?Show answer
The decisive AO3 skill is integration. Context earns marks when it is woven into the analysis of a feature so that it changes the reading: "the writer's representation of the outsider through a sympathetic focalisation would, for an audience shaped by the period's anxieties about difference, have been quietly subversive". Here the context (period attitudes, audience) deepens the analysis of a specific method (focalisation). A detached paragraph of background, however accurate, adds nothing to the reading and caps the band.
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Distinguish the contexts of production and reception. [3 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What does AO3 reward, and what does it not? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Why is integration the key AO3 skill? [2 marks]
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