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Unit 3: Interpretations and Perspectives
Quick questions on How representation constructs meaning: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 3
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What is selection?Show answer
Every representation is built first by selection. A writer cannot include everything, so what survives the cut is doing work. If a text describing a wealthy household lingers on the silver and never mentions the people who clean it, the selection itself constructs a world where labour is invisible. Ask of any passage: what has been chosen, and what has been silently left out?
What is framing?Show answer
The same detail can be framed to mean opposite things. A character weeping can be framed by the narration as weakness or as courage, depending on diction, tone and the position the reader is given. Framing includes word choice, the order of information, what the narrator approves or mocks, and where the reader is invited to stand. Two writers can select the identical event and frame it into two incompatible representations.
What are patterns build representation, not single words?Show answer
A representation is rarely carried by one line. It accumulates across a text through repeated patterns: the same group always described with the same kind of imagery, the same setting always associated with the same mood. Strong analysis tracks the pattern and names what it constructs, rather than over-reading a single adjective.
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