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Component 3: Non-Literary Texts
Quick questions on Comparing unseen non-literary and spoken texts (AO4) - Eduqas A-Level English Language and Literature
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What is build around shared ideas, all texts live?Show answer
The question names a shared focus (a subject, a stance, the audience relationship), and the comparison is built around it. Each paragraph takes an aspect of the focus and reads all the texts on it together, so they are present at once. This is the opposite of analysing text A fully, then text B: in a genuine comparison you cannot lift out a paragraph that is only about one text. Keeping all texts live around the shared idea is what earns AO4 across the unseen material.
What are read each text with its own tools?Show answer
Each text is read with the tools its mode demands, and the comparison sets these readings against each other. A transcript: discourse and pragmatics. A speech: scripted-spoken rhetoric and prosody. A written non-literary text: the language levels and, if literary non-fiction, narrative technique.
What is mode as the hinge?Show answer
"The two texts build authority in opposite modes: the speech projects it aurally, the tricolon and the stressed final beat carrying a listening crowd, while the transcript shows it negotiated live, the chair seizing and yielding the floor turn by turn. The contrast is a contrast of mode, the projected versus the interactional, and it explains why one can plan its effect and the other must improvise it." A point that is only comparison.
What are persuasion compared across modes?Show answer
"Both position their audience by inclusive address, but the speech's 'we' gathers a crowd into a body in real time, while the leaflet's 'you' singles out a reader alone with a designed page, the graphology, the headline and image, doing the work the speech does by sound. Same strategy, different modes, different effects." Strategy and mode compared.
What is q1?Show answer
What is the test of a genuine comparison of unseen texts? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why is mode often the sharpest hinge in this comparison? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Compare how the unseen texts use the features of their modes to engage their audiences, considering contexts. [out of 60]
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