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Component 3: Non-Literary Texts
Quick questions on The studied non-literary text (Section B) - Eduqas A-Level English Language and Literature
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What is the integrated reading of method?Show answer
The text is read with the full integrated toolkit. Analyse the voice and its grammar (the constructed persona, the evaluative narration that colours a supposedly factual account), the lexis and its connotations (the loaded word in a neutral frame), the structure and the handling of material (what is foregrounded, withheld, juxtaposed), and the discourse that organises the text. Read these to the effect they have on the reader's response. This is AO1 fused with AO2, applied to non-fiction.
What are its literary techniques?Show answer
Because the text is literary non-fiction, it uses the techniques of fiction, and reading these is central. Read the focalisation (a scene filtered through a participant), the narrative suspense (the withholding and deferral that build dread), the imagery (the figurative language a 'factual' text deploys), and the dramatic scene-setting. Literary non-fiction shapes the reader's response by literary means while claiming the authority of fact, and analysing how it does is the heart of the section.
What is literary technique shaping response?Show answer
"The reportage shapes the reader's dread by the novelist's means: it focalises the approach to the killing through the victims' ordinary evening, withholds the violence across pages of mounting detail, and lets a quiet, evaluative narration colour the 'factual' account, so the reader is positioned to feel the horror before it arrives. The craft of the telling, not the bare facts, creates the effect." Focalisation and suspense read to effect.
What is voice and purpose fused?Show answer
"The memoir's first-person voice is built to witness: the plain, declarative grammar and the refusal of rhetorical flourish construct a persona whose authority is honesty, so that the occasional evaluative word lands with weight, and the period's politics, read into the restraint, explain why this witness chooses plainness over polemic." Voice read through context.
What is q1?Show answer
Why is the studied non-literary text read as literary non-fiction? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What is the most common error in Section B? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Analyse how the writer of your studied non-literary text shapes the reader's response to their subject, considering contexts. [out of 60]
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