AQA (A): Paper 2: ‘World War I and its aftermath’
As readers of prose fiction, we freely enter into a contract with a writer who promises us entertainment and ultimately insight. We want to be told a story. But even before we can access the narrative, there are two additional filters that prose writers adopt and readers have to negotiate.One is the language choices the writer makes — choices at word, phrase, sentence and paragraph level involving a whole range of methods and effects. The other is the way in which the reader is controlled and manipulated — ‘placed’, let’s say — to create point of view.
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