Voices in Speech and Writing (Edexcel A-Level English Language and Literature) quiz

Two unseen non-fiction texts that you have never encountered before the exam

An unseen text with one text from the prescribed anthology

Two prescribed drama texts that you have studied closely in class beforehand

A poem set against a novel, both drawn from the literary heritage list

AO1, AO2 and AO3

AO3, AO4 and AO5

AO1, AO2 and AO4

AO5 only

Recording exactly how a real person sounds, treating the voice as a transparent natural sound

Ignoring the audience entirely and treating the voice as if it were produced for no one at all

Focusing only on the writer's biography rather than on any of the choices made within the text

Analysing how a producer engineers an identity for an audience through language

Whether a text is spoken, written or blended, and how the channel shapes it

The mood or emotional state of the writer at the moment of composing the text

The font, typeface and visual layout chosen for the page on which the text appears

The total number of speakers or contributors who take part across the whole text

Carefully edited paragraphs

Turn-taking and false starts

A printed contents page

Standardised spelling throughout

Contains no spoken features at all and reads exactly like a piece of formal printed prose

Cannot be edited once posted and is therefore fixed in the same way as a printed text

Imports spoken features such as ellipsis, contraction and direct address into writing

Has no audience in mind and is composed purely for the private satisfaction of the writer

A neutral, transparent description of reality that simply mirrors the world as it really is

Only the photographs, illustrations and other images that happen to appear within a text

Simply the number of facts and pieces of information that the writer chooses to include

A selection and slant: how the subject is portrayed through language choices

A mass-produced text engineered to feel individually addressed

A text composed entirely by an artificial intelligence system rather than by a human writer

A genuinely handwritten personal letter sent privately from one named individual to another

A grammar and spelling checker that automatically corrects errors as a writer types a text

Analyse the unseen text fully and only then turn to analyse the anthology text in full

Build a comparative thesis and analyse both texts together around points of comparison

List every single feature found in both texts one after another without offering any comment

Analyse only the anthology text in detail and leave the unseen text almost entirely aside

It is simply the easiest feature to name quickly, so it gets the whole answer started without much thought at all

It is required by the Edexcel mark scheme to be the very first point addressed in any comparison

It shapes what kind of voice is possible, explaining why texts achieve similar effects by different means

It removes the need to analyse the actual language of either text in any further detail at all