Week Two – Metalanguage

DUE: END OF WEEK FOUR

Hi everyone,

Now we have successfully navigated Week One, it is time to begin interrogating, analysing and critically engaging with a range of texts. Already, you have been asked to read carefully a range of documents. There is much more to come.

One of the things I have noticed whilst reading your comments, is that many of you are not referring to these texts in detail. In part, this is a macro level activity that asks you to accommodate the ideas and issues presented by these texts into your writing, into your responses. Increasingly though, it is a micro level activity that requires you to explore, deconstruct, examine and discuss particular features, conventions, patterns and elements. To do this, you must have the language to do so.

Below is a list recently given to our Year 11s. It should look familiar to you. Do you know what everyone of these things are? More importantly, can you identify them? More importantly still, can you explain their affect?

For each of the terms/concepts below, students need to provide an explanation, an example from a text they have studied, and a sentence that explains the effect in relation to that text.

Students should read and carefully consider the examples in Chapters 6, 10 and 11 from the blue course book titled “Western Australian ATAR Year 12” to help them with this process.

Examples should be given for each term – please use examples from The Catcher in the Rye and Perks of Being a Wallflower. If you become stuck, you may use Jasper Jones, but only as a back up.

This is an opportunity to begin engaging with your Yr1 2 texts closely.

Argumentative Persuasive devices

• Agenda shifting
• Allusion
• Analogy
• Anecdote
• Appeals to authority
• Appeal to popularity
• Concession
• Polarisation
• Pre-empting

Stylistic Persuasive Devices

• Alliteration
• Antithesis
• Direct address
• Balanced sentences
• Emotive language
• First personal plural
• Inclusive language
• Invective
• Metonymy
• Metaphor
• Periodic sentences
• Rhetorical Questions
• Tricolons and tetracolons
• Sequence
• Structure
• Selection

Narrative Elements

1. Point of view

• 1st person
• 2nd person
• 3rd person limited
• 3rd person omniscient
• Unreliable
• Naive
• Detached
• Intrusive

2. Characters

• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Anti-hero
• Foil
• Symbolic

3. Plot Structure

• Exposition/Orientation
• Inciting Incident
• Rising Action
• Conflict
• Tension
• Suspense
• Climax
• Resolution
• Denouement
• Chronological structure
• Foreshadowing
• Flash back
• Flash forward
• Red herring

4. Setting

• Geographic
• Temporal

5. Theme
6. Issue

Language Features/Patterns

1. Symbolism

• Trope
• Motif
• Connotation
• Archetype

2. Language

• Emotive

1. Adjectives
2. Adverbs
3. Intensifiers
4. Modality
5. Lexical items

• Figurative

1. Assonance
2. Simile
3. Onomatopoeia
4. Allusion
5. Oxymoron
6. Asyndeton
7. Polysyndeton
8. Hyperbole
9. Understatement
10. Anaphora
11. Personification
12. Pun
13. Euphemism
14. Idiom
15. Slang
16. Jargon
17. Syntax

• Colloquial
• Syntax
• Semantic
• Diction

Imagery

1. Visual
2. Aural
3. Gustatory
4. Tactile
5. Olfactory
6. Tone
7. Pitch
8. Strength
9. Quality
10. Resonance