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Component 3: Investigating and Creating Texts
Quick questions on Using style models - Edexcel A-Level English Language and Literature
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What is analysing the model?Show answer
Before drafting, analyse the model the way you analyse any text in the course. Identify its genre and the conventions that go with it: its register (formality, specialism), its structure (how it opens, develops and closes), and its voice (the persona it constructs). Then analyse its linguistic features: the lexis and semantic fields it favours, its characteristic syntax and rhythm, its graphology if relevant, and any signature techniques. This analysis is the same integrated method you apply elsewhere, and it produces the understanding you will emulate and the observations you will reference.
What is q1?Show answer
What is a style model? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What does it mean to emulate a model rather than imitate it? [3 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Why is the style model the hinge between the two assignments? [2 marks]
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