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Unit 3: Literature and identity
Quick questions on The power of language to represent in QCE Literature Unit 3
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What is the mechanisms of representation?Show answer
Three mechanisms do most of the work.
What is positioning the reader?Show answer
Representation always has a destination: the reader. A constructed version of an idea, event or person invites the reader into a particular relationship with it. This is positioning, and naming it is the difference between competent and strong analytical writing.
What is selection?Show answer
What the text includes and, just as importantly, what it leaves out. A text that represents a historical event entirely through the eyes of a single bystander has selected a frame that makes the event small and survivable. Selection is the first act of representation because it decides what counts.
What is figurative choice?Show answer
The metaphors and images a text reaches for. To represent grief as a weight, a tide or a wound is to make three different arguments about what grief is. Figurative language is never decoration in representation analysis; it is the attitude made visible.
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