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Unit 1: Reading and exploring texts and Crafting texts
Quick questions on Language features and their effects: VCE English Unit 1 Area of Study 1
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What is figurative features?Show answer
Language that operates beyond the literal. Metaphor, simile, personification, symbol, motif, imagery, allusion. Figurative language compresses meaning and asks the reader to extend it.
What is dialogic features?Show answer
Language of speech and voice. Direct dialogue, indirect dialogue, free indirect discourse, internal monologue, register shifts, voice modulation, address to the reader. Dialogic features manage the reader's access to characters and to the narrator.
What is structural and rhythmic features?Show answer
Sentence length and shape, paragraph structure, repetition, parallelism, anaphora, juxtaposition, framing, ellipsis. Structural features manage the pace and architecture of meaning.
What is generic?Show answer
"The author uses imagery."
What is specific?Show answer
"The author uses a sustained motif of water across chapters one, four, and seven."
What is what is the reader positioned to feel?Show answer
The reader's emotional access at this moment.
What is what is the reader positioned to think?Show answer
The reader's intellectual or interpretive access. What is the reader led to consider.
What is what is the reader given access to?Show answer
Inside which character, which scene, which information.
What is what is the reader denied?Show answer
What is kept from the reader, and why.
What is quote the figurative phrase?Show answer
Embedded in your sentence, not as a hanging block quotation.
What is name the figurative type precisely?Show answer
Metaphor, extended metaphor, simile, motif, symbol, allusion. Use the right name.
What is argue what the figurative move compresses?Show answer
Figurative language is a compression of meaning. What does this metaphor pack in. What is the literal alternative the author refused.
What is argue the effect on the reader?Show answer
What does the figurative move ask the reader to do.
What is place the figurative move in pattern if there is one?Show answer
A single image is one thing; a recurring motif is another. If the figurative move is part of a pattern across the text, name the pattern.
What is voice?Show answer
Who narrates and from what position. First-person retrospective, first-person present, third-person limited, third-person omniscient. The choice of voice shapes everything.