Text Types: Letters (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards
📚Flashcards
Practise the cards
10 cards from this deck
ShowHide
Practise the cards
10 cards from this deck
What are letters?
What are letters?
Personal writing for a specific reader
Letters vs diaries: key difference
Letters vs diaries: key difference
Letters have audience awareness; diaries don't
SAPS mnemonic meaning
SAPS mnemonic meaning
Salutation, Audience, Paragraphs (short), Sign-off
Personal letters: audience
Personal letters: audience
Friends or family members
Personal letters: tone
Personal letters: tone
Informal, conversational
Formal letters: contexts
Formal letters: contexts
To employers, editors, official correspondence
5 parts of letter structure
5 parts of letter structure
Salutation, opening, body, closing, sign-off/name
Salutation examples
Salutation examples
'Dear...' or 'To Whom It May Concern'
Sign-off examples
Sign-off examples
'Yours sincerely' or 'Best regards'
Persuasive techniques in letters (4)
Persuasive techniques in letters (4)
Exaggeration, satire, rhetorical questions, anecdotes