Analysing Aesthetic Choices and Craft in Literature

What this note covers

1. What Are Aesthetic Choices? Defining the Term for HSC Purposes
2. Structural Decisions: Architecture as Argument
3. Stylistic Decisions: Voice, Diction, and the Texture of Language
4. Generic Decisions: Choosing, Subverting, and Hybridising Form
5. Literary Distinctiveness: What Makes This Text Unlike Any Other?
6. Enduring Power: Why Does the Text Still Matter?
7. Bringing It Together: Writing About Aesthetic Choices in the Exam

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