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Unit 1: Perspectives in English
Quick questions on Imaginative response (QCE English Unit 1)
12short Q&A pairs drawn directly from our worked dot-point answer. For full context and worked exam questions, read the parent dot-point page.
What is voice?Show answer
Whose perspective, in which person, in what tense? - First person (intimate, limited knowledge). - Limited third person (focalised through one character, fuller world).
What is structure?Show answer
What shape, what order? - Linear chronological scene. - In medias res opening.
What is language features?Show answer
What sentence shapes, what register, what figurative language? - Sentence variation (mix long and short). - Modality choices.
What is perspective?Show answer
What worldview, what cultural standpoint, what implicit values? - A perspective makes the piece more than competent description.
What is short fiction?Show answer
Often single scene or short sequence. Limited cast. Implicit theme.
What is monologue?Show answer
Single voice, direct address (often to an implied listener). Strong vocal characterisation. Limited descriptive scaffolding.
What is poetry?Show answer
Compressed image, sound work, line breaks. May be free verse or formal.
What is multimodal?Show answer
Words plus image and/or sound. Often a graphic short piece or a video script. Each mode does work; words must not duplicate image.
What is treating "imaginative" as "unstructured"?Show answer
Imaginative responses require deliberate craft choices.
What is over-explaining theme?Show answer
Themes should emerge from action and image, not from authorial statement.
What is adverbial overload?Show answer
"She said sadly" is weaker than the dialogue that demonstrates her sadness.
What is loose voice control?Show answer
Switching person or tense without intention disorients the reader.