Passage based approaches, take 2

Hi everyone,


Hope you've had a restful study break!

Onwards and upwards, then.

Passage-based approaches should do everything AS-Level, yet start with the following:

Who's the narrator or main "voice"?

• This will determine reader response. Do we trust the voice?
• What is the tone?
• What do we as readers infer about the voice?
• What do we as readers infer about the conclusions reached by the voice?

Structure revisited-

• Think about sentence structure and what it tells us.
• If you were to break the passage down into segments, what would they be?  Why?  (Use topic, tone, and time)

Genre clues?

• What aspects of the text are indicative of genre?
• What aspects of the text, if any, subvert the genre?

Overall topic and critical response


Hope this helps.


- T. Marcus