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Component 01: the EMC anthology of non-fiction and spoken texts
Quick questions on Context and genre in the anthology (AO3) - OCR A-Level English Language and Literature
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What are genre as a system of conventions?Show answer
Each anthology text belongs to a non-fiction genre, and genres carry conventions that shape meaning. A speech uses direct address, aural patterning and a projected persona for a listening audience. A memoir uses a retrospective first person, reflective stance and the shaping of remembered experience. Journalism ranges from the impersonal, structured news report to the voiced opinion column.
What is period read into a feature?Show answer
"The text's indirection is a feature of its period, not a flaw: the conventions of public decorum in its era make naming the scandal outright unthinkable, so the writer circles it through euphemism and presupposition, and the reader of the time would have understood exactly what was meant. Read against a modern column's bluntness, the restraint marks how period conventions shape what can be said and how." Period licensing a feature, used comparatively.
What is genre conventions read?Show answer
"The memoir leans on its genre's retrospective stance: the past-tense narration and the reflective asides that judge the remembered self construct the double vision memoir thrives on, the older writer weighing the younger life. Where the news report's genre demands impersonal immediacy, the memoir's demands precisely this personal hindsight, and the contrast of genres explains the contrast of voice." Genre conventions read and compared.
What is q1?Show answer
What are the two sides of context in AO3? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why is naming a genre not enough? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Compare how the contexts in which two texts were produced shape how they address their readers. [32 marks]
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