Audience, Purpose, Genre

Name 4 main purposes of texts
- Inform
- Instruct
- Persuade
- Entertain
Features of Inform texts
- Contain facts
- Structured clearly
- Presentational features
- Clear intended audience
- Specialist or technical terms
- Serious tone
- 3rd person
Features of instruct texts
- Chronological or numbered sections
- Bullet points or headings
- Imperatives
- Second person
- Straightforward lexis
- Subject specific lexis
Features of persuasive texts
- Try to influence reader
- First person
- Emotive adjectives
- Use facts & statistics
- Connectives
- Eye catching graphology
Features of entertain texts
- Sophisticated language
- Figurative language
- Extensive vocabulary
- Complex structures
- Varied sentence types
- Eye catching layout
Audience

The group of people that the text is aimed at.
How to work out the audience
- Style-formal or informal?
- Content-general or specific?
- Lexis-complex or simple?
- Tone-Serious or lighthearted?
12 different genres

Letters, reports, poems, stories, adverts, postcards, recipes, emails, cartoons, text messages, newspapers, articles

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MrsBooth

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Card Set

Audience, Purpose, Genre

Description

Cards to revise APG for AS English Language AQA B

Updated

2013-04-10T12:28:27Z

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