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25 Cards in this Set
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Close reading |
The practice of analysing and interpreting texts |
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Audience |
The group of listeners or readers for whom a text or message is intended |
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Purpose |
The writer's intention in writing a text |
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Context of interpretation |
The factors that can influence a reader of a text, such as time, place and personal experience |
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Context of composition |
The factors that can influence a writer when creating a text, such as time, place and personal experience |
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Content |
What happens in a text, in terms of actions, events, people and places |
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Theme |
The deeper meaning or main ideas of a text |
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Deductive reasoning |
An argument that comes to a specific conclusion by drawing on general rules |
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Inductive reasoning |
An argument that comes to a general conclusion by drawing on specific cases |
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Premises |
Statements or propositions that arguments rely on the come to conclusions |
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Tone |
The language used by a speaker or writer to instigate an emotional effect on the listener or reader |
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Mood |
The atmosphere that is created for an audience through the tone of the text |
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Diction |
The choice of vocabulary that the writer uses in order to create a tone |
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Denotation |
What the word stands for in its literal sense |
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Connotation |
The aura of emotional meaning that we associate with a word |
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Stylistic devices |
Techniques that writers and speakers employ to instigate a response from their audience |
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Verbal irony |
A stylistic device in which the surface meaning and the underlying meaning are not the same |
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Sarcasm |
A form of verbal irony that includes humour and criticism |
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Rhetorical question |
Questions that do not require answering because the situation already implies an obvious answer |
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Pun |
A stylistic device that relies on the secondary meaning of a phrase or word |
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Analogy |
The process of comparing two things or ideas |
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Metaphor |
The use of language to make a comparison between two things or ideas by applying a word or phrase to something that does not literally mean that |
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Structure |
How the information within a text is organised |
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Anecdote |
A story or biographical incident that usually contains a small life story or moral message |
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Paper 1 |
At HL, a comparative textual analysis of one of two pairs of unseen texts |
