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Unit 3: Literature and identity
Quick questions on Positioning and inviting the reader in QCE Literature Unit 3
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What is the levers of positioning?Show answer
A short inventory of how texts position. Point of view: whose eyes you see through shapes whose side you take. Sympathy and interiority: the character whose inner life you are given is the character you are invited to understand. Sequencing: what the text reveals first frames how you read what comes after.
What is invitation, not guarantee?Show answer
The safest and most accurate way to write about positioning is the language of invitation. A text invites, encourages, positions a reader to feel a certain way. It does not make every reader feel it, because readers bring their own contexts and some will resist. Writing the reader is positioned to feel is precise and defensible.
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