Navigating the Craft of Writing (HSC SSCE English Advanced): Flashcards

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Voice, style, and register
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Voice in writing

Writing's personality or distinct attitude

Style in writing

Deliberate technical choices for specific effects

Register in writing

Level of formality suited to audience & context

3 effects voice creates

Intimacy, authority, irony

3 components of style

Syntax, imagery, rhythm

Reflective observer voice

Thoughtful, contemplative through sensory details

Lyrical impressionist voice

Prioritises beauty of language & evocative imagery

Techniques for creating intimacy

Fragments, short sentences, first-person, concrete nouns

Techniques for authority

Complex sentences, Latinate vocab, passive constructions

Syntax variety per 200 words

3 long, 3 short sentences, 2 strategic fragments

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