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Component 3: Non-Literary Texts
Quick questions on Analysing non-literary texts - Eduqas A-Level English Language and Literature
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What is the language levels read positioning?Show answer
Persuasion and positioning work largely through pragmatics and grammar. Direct address ("you") and inclusive pronouns ("we") position the reader into a relationship; presupposition smuggles in assumptions the reader is led to accept ("Tired of waiting?"); implicature persuades by what is implied; imperatives and modality command or urge; loaded lexis colours the subject before any argument is made; discourse organises the text to lead the reader to a conclusion. Reading these to the effect of positioning, not labelling them, is the skill.
What are graphology in multimodal texts?Show answer
Multimodal and digital texts combine writing with layout, typography, colour and image (graphology), and often blend the written with the spoken (a social post's speech-like informality in written form). Read graphological features for purpose, the headline that frames, the image that anchors a meaning, the layout that guides the eye, and read the mode blend: how a digital text imports spoken immediacy into the written mode. Always connect the visual feature to meaning, not just description.
What is literary technique in literary non-fiction?Show answer
Much prescribed non-fiction is literary non-fiction: reportage, memoir, literary journalism that uses the techniques of fiction. Read its focalisation (a scene filtered through a participant), its narrative method (suspense, the handling of time, the withholding of information), its voice (a constructed persona, evaluative narration) and its imagery. Literary non-fiction shapes the reader's response with literary method while claiming the authority of fact, and reading it as literary non-fiction, not bare reporting, finds the craft.
What is literary non-fiction's craft?Show answer
"The reportage focalises the killing through a bystander and withholds the outcome across several paragraphs, borrowing the novelist's suspense, while evaluative lexis colours the 'neutral' account; the reader is positioned to dread and to judge by literary means, even as the text claims the authority of fact." Literary technique read to effect.
What is q1?Show answer
What is a non-literary text read for? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why read literary technique in prescribed non-fiction? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Analyse how the unseen non-literary text positions its reader, considering contexts. [out of 60]
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