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Writing About Society
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90 min
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AqaA LevelEnglish Language And LiteraturePaper 2 Exploring Conflict
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Writing About Society requirements16 objectives
- Analyse how writers present events
- Analyse how writers present people in the writing about society set text
- Analyse how writers present place
- Analyse how writers present points of view
- Analyse how writers present time
- Analyse how writers shape narrative structure
- Analyse relationships between characters or participants
- Develop undeveloped aspects of narrative or characterisation in re creative writing
- Explain how changing genre context purpose audience or mode can reshape meaning
- Explain how changing point of view can reshape meaning
- Explain how situations of conflict express ideas about societies and values
- Explain how speech and thought processes reveal viewpoint
- Link the presentation of relationships to wider social values
- Produce re creative work that develops an absent perspective from the base text
- Produce re creative work that develops an underplayed perspective from the base text
- Select significant moments in time or descriptions of place for re creative transformation
Key terms
Narrative voiceContextConflictThemeSettingImageryDramatic IronySymbolismNon-linear narrativeTemporal settingForeshadowingClimax
Exam tips
- Use textual evidence effectively: Always support your analysis with specific quotes or examples from the text.
- Use Textual Evidence: Support your analysis with direct quotes from the text.
Common mistakes
- Confusing narrator with author: Remember that the narrator is a character within the text, while the author is the real person who created the work.
- Misinterpreting Character Perspectives: Always distinguish between the narrator's perspective and the author's intentions to avoid misinterpretation.
Practice preview
- Which of the following techniques is commonly used by writers to present societal conflict?
- How does the use of first-person narration affect the presentation of societal issues in a text?
- Discuss how the context of a writer influences their portrayal of societal conflict in their work. Use specific examples to support your answer.
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