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Unit 1: Perspectives in English
Quick questions on Cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs: QCE English Unit 1 Year 11
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What are cultural assumptions?Show answer
What the text takes for granted. Background knowledge, shared social understandings. Often implicit (the text does not explain them).
What are cultural attitudes?Show answer
Stances toward specific groups, events, or ideas. Often implied through tone, framing, what is foregrounded or marginalised.
What are cultural values?Show answer
What is considered worthwhile, important, good. Implied through what the text rewards, celebrates, or condemns.
What are cultural beliefs?Show answer
Convictions about how things are or should be. Often religious, political, philosophical.
What is selection and omission?Show answer
What is shown vs not shown. A novel about colonial Australia that never shows indigenous people implicitly carries a particular assumption.
What is tone and framing?Show answer
How an event is described. A war scene presented with sombre, lyrical prose carries different values than the same scene in clinical neutrality.
What are character outcomes?Show answer
Who prospers, who suffers. The text rewards what it values.
What is narrator's stance?Show answer
What the narrator finds worthy of comment. What the narrator passes over without notice.
What is direct address?Show answer
What the implied reader is assumed to know, believe, or share.
What are cultural references?Show answer
Allusions, idioms, naming conventions, social rituals that are not explained.
What is resolution?Show answer
What the text presents as the natural or right ending.