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Component 01: the EMC anthology of non-fiction and spoken texts
Quick questions on Representation in non-fiction - OCR A-Level English Language and Literature
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What is transitivity constructing power?Show answer
"The report represents the residents as passive throughout: they are 'relocated', 'rehoused', 'consulted', always the patients of decisions made elsewhere, never the agents of their own lives. The transitivity strips them of initiative and casts them as a population managed, and the consistent agentless passives ('it was decided') hide who is doing the deciding, so responsibility floats free. A grammar that made the residents agents would build a different, more active version."
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What does it mean to analyse representation as "constructed"? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
How does transitivity contribute to representation? [2 marks]
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Compare how two texts represent those in authority, exploring contexts. [32 marks]
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