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Unit 4: Literary Texts, Contexts and Values
Quick questions on Evaluating aesthetic features and literary value: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4
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What are aesthetic features?Show answer
Aesthetic features are the qualities that produce a text's artistic effect and the reader's pleasure, discomfort or wonder. They include the music of language, the patterning of imagery, the elegance or roughness of form, the control of rhythm and pace, and the way a text rewards rereading. Analysing them means attending not only to what a text means but to how it achieves its effects as a made artwork, and arguing how the craft produces the experience of reading. This is close reading turned toward beauty and effect rather than only toward argument.
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