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What is using oppositions flexibly?Show answer
The forms WJEC studies are varied, and many modern products complicate the neat oppositions of classical narrative. An online or magazine text may construct an opposition (aspiration against ordinariness, insider against outsider) without resolving it; a television drama may invite sympathy for the "other". Naming the opposition and then explaining how the product unsettles it is a mark of sophisticated reading.
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What is a binary opposition? [2 marks]
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Why is it important to ask which side of an opposition a text privileges? [3 marks]
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Using Levi-Strauss, explore how one set product is structured around binary oppositions, and assess how far they explain its meaning. [15 marks]
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