Free QCE Year 11 English Flashcard Review
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What are the four layers of context of production?
Personal, social, historical and cultural.
What is the 'context → choice → effect' chain?
Identify a relevant context, link it to a specific textual choice, then explain the meaning or effect that results.
Context of production vs context of reception?
Production: the circumstances in which the text was made. Reception: the circumstances and values the audience brings to it.
Name the five elements whose relationships you must explain.
Language, text, purpose, audience and context.
How do pronouns signal individual vs collective experience?
'I' foregrounds individual perspective; 'we/our' builds collective identity; 'they' can create distance or exclusion.
What does 'representation is never neutral' mean?
Texts select, emphasise and omit details to construct a particular version of an experience or group.
Specific vs public audience?
Specific: a known, defined group (e.g. a school assembly). Public: a broad, varied audience (e.g. newspaper readers).
Three ways a composer builds a relationship with an audience.
Any three: mode of address, tone/register, shared values or references, credibility, emotional appeal, structure such as anecdote openings.
How is an audience relationship sustained?
By maintaining connection throughout, e.g. circular structure, inclusive pronouns, anticipating objections, a call to action.
Define intertextuality.
The relationship between texts through allusion, quotation, parody, adaptation or borrowed conventions.
Two conventions of a speech.
Any two: direct address, repetition, rhetorical questions, signposting, call to action.
Why might a composer subvert a genre convention?
To surprise, unsettle or challenge audience expectations and create additional meaning.
What is the difference between a perspective and a representation?
A perspective is the viewpoint a text adopts; a representation is the constructed version of a subject that results from that viewpoint and the composer's choices.
Name three questions to ask when analysing a representation.
Who or what is represented? How are they represented (attributes, actions, voice)? From whose perspective?
Why is (auto)biography never neutral?
The writer selects, orders and interprets memories from a present viewpoint, constructing a self-representation shaped by current values.
What does it mean for a text to position a reader?
It invites the reader to take up a particular attitude or response, such as sympathy or distrust, through its choices.
How can editing position a documentary viewer?
Sequence, pace and cuts control what is connected; for example a cut from a promise to contrary footage invites doubt.
Effect of a low camera angle?
It usually makes the subject appear powerful, dominant or imposing.
What are logos, ethos and pathos?
Appeals to reason and evidence, to the speaker's credibility and shared values, and to emotion.
Why does site of use matter in persuasion?
The medium and audience limit and shape strategies: a tweet needs brevity and punch, a speech can build layered argument.