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Unit 1: Perspectives in English
Quick questions on Perspectives and representations: QCE English Unit 1 Year 11
9short 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 worked example. A novel focalised through one character?Show answer
The text presents events through Anna's consciousness. Anna sees the action from her vantage point, with her assumptions, her limits. The reader has access to her thoughts but not to other characters'.
What is representation is not reality?Show answer
A text's representation of a place is not the place itself. A 19th-century novel's representation of working-class life is constructed by the author for particular purposes; it differs from working-class life as lived (or as represented by other texts).
What is voice?Show answer
First-person, third-person limited, third-person omniscient, free indirect discourse. Each constructs perspective differently.
What is focalisation?Show answer
Through whose consciousness are events filtered?
What is vocabulary?Show answer
Word choices carrying connotation, register, judgement.
What is selection?Show answer
What is included and what is omitted.
What is sequence?Show answer
The order in which events are presented.
What is image?Show answer
Recurring visual or sensory motifs.
What is address?Show answer
Direct vs implied audience.