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Unit 2: Reading and exploring texts and Exploring argument
Quick questions on Tone, audience and intended effect: VCE English Unit 2 Year 11
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What is the writer doing?Show answer
2. What technique is being used? 3.
What is language cues that produce tone?Show answer
Tone is constructed by specific language choices.
What is identifying the audience?Show answer
The audience is not "the reader". The audience is the specific group implied by the form.
What is tone labelled once?Show answer
"The tone is angry" stated in the opening and never returned to.
What is generic emotional vocabulary?Show answer
"Sad", "happy", "negative", "positive" are too coarse. Use specific tonal terms.
What is audience as "the reader"?Show answer
Generic "the reader" loses traction. Name the audience the form implies.
What is effect as feeling alone?Show answer
Audience effect is also thinking, doubting, accepting, rejecting. Name the cognitive or behavioural move.
What are audience as assumed beliefs?Show answer
A piece published in a parenting magazine assumes a reader who already values children's wellbeing. So an appeal to "the world we leave our kids" lands as shared common ground, not as something to be argued. Naming what the audience is assumed to know and believe lets you argue why a given move works on that audience specifically.
What is q1?Show answer
For an unseen text, identify the tone using two precise descriptors and track one shift across the piece. [4 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Name the implied audience of a persuasive text and state two things that audience is assumed to believe. [Short response]
What is q3?Show answer
Rewrite "this makes the reader feel angry" as a specific argued effect. [Short response]