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Quick questions on Critical essay on film and television drama or language - SQA National 5 English
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What is language?Show answer
For a language essay, you analyse a use of language (often persuasive or media language, such as a speech, advert or campaign) and how its features achieve a purpose for an audience. The toolkit is register, tone, word choice, sentence structure and rhetorical devices (rhetorical questions, repetition, lists of three, emotive language). Each paragraph analyses a feature and its effect, linked to the purpose and audience.
What is q1?Show answer
Name four media techniques you could analyse in a film and television drama essay. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why does analysing only the script miss the point in a film essay? [1 mark]
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In a language essay, what must each feature be linked to? [2 marks]
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