Quick questions on Recreating texts: craft and purpose - OCR A-Level English Language and Literature

Voice is the constructed persona or perspective from which the piece speaks, and it is the first craft decision. A recreative piece gives a voice to a character or perspective consistent with the original; an original piece adopts a voice suited to the form and purpose (a columnist's performed conviction, a memoirist's reflective intimacy, a reporter's measured authority). Voice is built through the grammar of person and modality, the lexis and register, and the rhythm of the sentences. A controlled, consistent, fitting voice is the foundation of a crafted piece.

"For the recreative monologue I decide the voice first: a defensive, self-justifying speaker whose long, qualifying sentences and insistent first person reveal more than they intend. Every later choice, the colloquial lexis, the circling structure, follows from that voice, and because I built it deliberately I can explain in the commentary exactly how the grammar constructs the self-deception." Voice decided first, built deliberately, explicable.

"In the original campaigning column, the short, punchy sentences and the direct second-person address are chosen because the purpose is to galvanise a young readership, not for effect alone. The introduction names this: the style serves the persuasive purpose and the youth audience, so every stylistic decision has a stated reason." Purpose-driven, articulable style.

What craft principles do the recreative and original writing tasks share? [2 marks]

Why is deliberateness the key discipline? [2 marks]

Recreate a passage from the set text in a different form, informed by the original. [18 marks]