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Unit 3: Responding to and Creating Texts in Contexts
Quick questions on Genre conventions and text structures: WACE Year 12 English Unit 3
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What are conventions are expectations, not rules?Show answer
Think of conventions as a contract between writer and reader. A horror story conventionally builds dread, isolates its protagonist and withholds the threat. A reader who picks up a horror story expects this. The writer can do three things with that expectation:
What is structure is meaning, not scaffolding?Show answer
Structure is the order and shape of a text: how it begins, how information is released, how it ends. Strong analysis treats structural choices as deliberate. Watch for:
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