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NSWEnglish Extension 1Common Module: Literary Worlds
Quick questions on Context and reader response in HSC English Extension 1
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What is context of reception?Show answer
The rubric is equally clear that context shapes how readers value and respond to texts. A reader stands somewhere, and that standing place determines what the world makes feel natural and what it makes feel false. A world that assumed its values were universal can read, to a reader in another context, as the partial vision of a single position. This is not the reader misreading; it is the rubric's point, that response is produced by the meeting of a constructed world and a situated reader.
What is save one sentence for the gap itself?Show answer
Whatever the question, a closing line that names the gap between the context that made the world and the context that now reads it, and says what that gap reveals, is the single highest-value sentence in a Literary Worlds context response.
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