Aice lang midterm

Advertisement: -commercial
-key features: headings, branding, simple, and clear text, and large images

Brochure:-commercial
-key features: headings, branding, simple, and clear text, and large images

Leaflet:-commercial
-key features: headings, branding, simple, and clear text, and large images

Editorial:-Journalistic
-presents the official opinion of the publication
-detached and formal
-written in the third person (can vary)

News story:-Journalistic
-describes the news events
-varies by publication but often neutral
-many complex sentences to fit in a lot of information

article:-Journalistic
-explains the writers opinions are discussed as a topical issue
-personal and often chatty; varies according to the personality of the writer
-written in the first person

investigative journalism:-Journalistic
-gives in depth information about a topical issue that the journalist has discovered
-usually detached and formal; avoid sensationalist and emotional comment
-includes statistics, dates and times, images of documents, etc., as evidence

Review:-Journalistic
-offers an evaluation of a product or collection of products
-Personal but well informed
-often uses a jargon related to the type of product

Blog:-Online form
-key features: post on a central topic or set a related topic; like a public diary; chronological with most recent first; written in first person; uses images, hyper links, and tag; audience/followers can comment/interactive posts.

Podcast:-Online form
-key features: audio, recording; episode; one or more; not usually scripted; can interview guest; likely plan ahead of time and edited afterwards; includes jingles, sound effects, turn-taking cues, and directly addressing the audience

Letter:-personal form
-key features: one specific person; placement of address; salutation/greeting; bodies last message; closing

diary:-personal form
-key features: usually private, meant for just the writer themselves; chronological record of experiences or events

travel writing:-personal form
-key features: record of a trip in descriptive writer; can be personal or with a wider audience in mind; includes details about a specific location and it's culture

Biography, autobiography, memoir:-personal form
-biography is someone else's life; chronological; third person
-autobiography is writing about one own life; chronological; first person
-memoir is specific experience/event from one owns

essay:-formal text
-key features: formal structure; clear evidence and strong sense of logic; using discord markers; thesis or statement

scripted speeches:-formal text
-key features: acknowledgment of the institution or context in which the speech is given by making appropriate things are greeting; rhetorical devices, such as repetition; the audience is listening to rather than reading the words.

Narrative writing:-literary texts
-key features: presented as prose, poetry, or drama; clear sense of action or direction; a deliberate perspective; characters experience conflict

descriptive writing:-literary texts
-key features: clear, physical, sensory detail that aims to draw the audience into the time and place that was being described; figurative language such as metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, hyperbole - all to create strong imagery.

Context:The situation or background to a text or its writer

Audience:the readers of or listeners to a text; can apply to an individual or group

Purpose:The reason why a text has been written and what the writer is seeking to achieve; can be a general intention or more specific

Tone:The voice or level of feeling, closely linked to the mood created.

Mood:The atmosphere or feeling created by text or elements of a text

Form:The shape and overall presentation of a text

Context- background information
Audience- who did the writer have in mind?
Purpose- the authors goal: to persuade, to inform, to entertain.

What type of text?
Visual features?
Tone/style change depending on Purpose or Audience?

Structure:The way a text is organized and ordered.

Common patterns- Chonological, etc.
Shifts- in time, topic, perspective, pacing
Features- Subheadings, bullet points, etc

How is the text organize?
What is the order of information?
Where are the shifts?

Language:Words the author uses to convey his ideas

Diction- word choice
Imagery- emotion, senses, atmosphere
Detail- logical or emotional appeals
Figurative Language- develop ideas, etc
Syntax- sentence structure

How can you describe the lang used?
How does it fit the purpose or audience?

Simile:When one thing is compared to another using like or as

Metaphor:Assumes a comparison without using like or as

Personification:When a thing, idea or animals is given human attributes

Symbolism: When a particular event, image or even a person represents a larger idea

imagery: isually descriptive or figurative language

Simple sentances:One main clause

Compound sentences:two or more main clause

Complex sentances:one or more main clause and one or more subordinate clause

Declarative sentence:Makes a statement

Interrogative sentence: Asks a question

Imperative sentence:Directs or commands

Exclamatory sentence: expreses emotion

Minor sentence:Grammatically incomplete sentence

Noun:Things idea, places and people which are divided into proper and common nouns.

Verb: Describes an action or state.

Adjective:Describes a noun 'dark tower'

Adverb:Describes the manner in which something is done 'quickly'

Pronoun:Words that take place of a noun or noun phrases, such as he or she

Preposition:Describes the relationship between things and time, place and so on

Conjugation:A connective word that links parts of a sentence or sentences

determiner:A short word that helps specify a noun

Exclamation:word or phrase that stand stands on its own, usually expressing surprise or emotion

First person narrative:The use of I, we when explaining ideas, experiences, or telling a story.

Second person narrative:That use of you as the main narrative voice.

Third person Limited:The use of he, she, or they to recount events or share the thoughts of one character

Third person omniscient:The use of heat, she, or they to recount events or share the thoughts of more than one character

connotation:an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

denotation:the literal or primary meaning of a word