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Unit 3: Literature and identity
Quick questions on Language, culture and identity in QCE Literature Unit 3
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What is language choices that construct identity?Show answer
A working list of the choices most often examined.
What is diction?Show answer
The level and source of the vocabulary. A character whose speech is rendered in plain, monosyllabic Anglo-Saxon words reads differently from one whose speech is Latinate and formal. Diction signals class, education, region and belonging before any plot information arrives.
What is register?Show answer
The formality of the language and how it shifts. A character who moves from formal register with an authority figure to intimate register at home is being shown to inhabit more than one cultural world.
What are idiom and untranslated words?Show answer
Phrases left untranslated, or rendered in a heritage language, mark the limits of what the dominant language can hold. The untranslated word insists on a culture the reader is positioned partly outside.
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