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Unit 2: Reading and exploring texts and Exploring argument
Quick questions on Vocabulary, text structures and language features in a Unit 2 set text: VCE English Year 11
10short Q&A pairs drawn directly from our worked dot-point answer. For full context and worked exam questions, read the parent dot-point page.
What are text structures?Show answer
The shape of the text as a whole and of its parts.
What is the metalanguage Year 11 students should command?Show answer
Generic terms (technique, device, method) signal Year 10 plateau. Specific terms lift Year 11 responses toward Band 6.
What is effect on the reader?Show answer
For each craft choice, name the effect on the reader. Generic effects ("the reader feels sympathetic") signal lower-band response. Specific effects argue what the reader is positioned to feel, think, doubt, or accept.
What is generic metalanguage?Show answer
"The author uses techniques" carries no analytical weight. Replace with specific terms.
What is plot summary masquerading as analysis?Show answer
Retelling a scene is not analysing how the scene is constructed.
What are misnamed features?Show answer
Calling a metaphor a simile, or focalisation a "perspective". Use precise terms.
What is three layers converging on one effect?Show answer
Using a self-authored passage: "The house was tidy. Always tidy. She straightened the cushion that did not need it."
What is q1?Show answer
Take one short passage from your set text and analyse one vocabulary choice, one language feature and one structural choice, showing how the three combine. [6 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Correct two misnamed features: a metaphor called a simile, and focalisation called "a perspective". [Short response]
What is q3?Show answer
Explain why precise metalanguage earns more than "the author uses good description". [Short response]