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Voice §

there may be a question on voice

• refers to the persona we ‘hear’ communicating with us as we engage with a text.
  • e.g. a voice can be:
    • authoritative, credible, knowledgeable
    • urgent, direct, formal
    • emotional - appealing to the audience’s emotions
    • humorous, self deprecating
    • colloquial, conversational
    • reflective, nostalgic
    • shady, unreliable
    • cynical
• how voices are constructed

| written text
(our two short stories) | visual texts
(film - wtcs) | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --- | | - narrative point of view
- dialogue
- narration
- diction
- punctuation
- sentence length
- figurative language
- colloquialism | -voice over
-dialogue
-facial expression and gestures, which can enhance a sense of voice
- aspects of composition framing, perspective, which can enhance a sense of voice. | | |

• kya is reflective of her experiences
• how well do we trust the narrator (eg in the lieabout)

no values and attitudes (from teacher’s memory)

• audience how a text impacts audience
• there are 2 questions on voice
• WTCS
  • kya had a critical voice to society in her dialogue
  • society had a critical voice of kya using their dialogue

word bank for identifying voice:

• by tone - critical, cynical, satirical, warm
• by register - colloquial, formal, neutral, vulgar
• by purpose - affirmative, condemnatory, inspiring, persuasive
• by sound - clear, distinct, loud, quiet
• by identity - childlike, female (gender), first nations (cultural), middle class (class)
• by credibility - artificial, authentic, feeble, subjective
• by audience response - amusing, engaging, impressive, objectionable

two are comparative in comprehension

things to prepare a response for

• mood, tone & voice
• perspectives
• language choices
• audience response
• representations of individuals or group
• genre & generic conventions
• issues

composing hints §

hints/ideas §

• social dilemma
• everyday events
• dealing with pain
• childhood fears

feedback §

• structure
  • blog
  • letter
• imaginative
  • include dialogue (make sure you know dialogue rules)
  • take risks with line breaks
  • title!!!!!!!!!! (interpretive and imaginative and persuasive)
  • make sure text type is OBVIOUS
  • know stylistic & structural features of text type.
    • a lot of texts fall short in their structural and stylistic features