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Unit 2: Texts and culture
Quick questions on Imaginative and persuasive texts: QCE English Unit 2 Year 11
10short 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 persuasive opening?Show answer
The opening uses anecdote (grandmother), inclusive pronouns (we, our), historical reference (1972), and a clear contention (the proposed reform is a small instalment).
What is voice?Show answer
Establishing and sustaining a specific speaker / narrator. Voice includes vocabulary, sentence shape, register, hesitations, omissions.
What is scene?Show answer
Building through specific scenes rather than summary. Scene grounds the reader in sensory experience.
What is image?Show answer
Specific sensory rendering. Concrete images outperform abstract claims.
What is structure?Show answer
The overall shape of the piece. Linear, fragmented, retrospective. The shape supports the controlling idea.
What is contention?Show answer
The specific position the piece argues. A contention is more specific than a topic; arguable; defensible.
What is audience?Show answer
Who you imagine reading. What they already know and believe. What you need them to accept.
What is evidence?Show answer
Statistics, expert opinion, anecdote, hypothetical, analogy.
What are rhetorical moves?Show answer
Appeals (to authority, fairness, fear, compassion), inclusive language, rhetorical questions, anaphora, tricolon, modal verbs.
What is tone?Show answer
The stance toward the topic and audience. Measured, urgent, sympathetic, defiant.