WACE English ATAR Exam Questions & Answers 2024/25

WACE English ATAR Exam Questions & Answers 2024/25 Personal Context - ANSWERSHow your family, age, gender, ethnicity, experiences etc shape your perspectives, attitudes and values and responses to a text Authorial Context - ANSWERSHow the authors experiences, gender, ethnicity etc shape the text Social Context - ANSWERSHow the people around a text use and interpret it - it influences how the text is read Historical Context - ANSWERSReflects the time in which the text was created Narrative Point of View - ANSWERSThe perspective from which a story is told Characterisation - ANSWERSRefers to the general construction of characters Environment - ANSWERSan aspect of characterisation which refers to where we first see a character and the objects he/she is surrounded by Speech - ANSWERSan aspect of characterisation which refers to how a character talks and the sorts of things they say Intertextuality - ANSWERSWhen we draw connections between texts Stereotypes - ANSWERSPre-conceived ideas about places, people or institutions Diction - ANSWERSRefers to the specific word choice of the author