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- Subject: English
- AS: 90724
- Level: 3
- Credits: 3
- External
3.5 Read and respond critically to unfamiliar prose and poetry texts
Terminology
Here are explanations for terminology used in the achievement criteria for this achievement standard. They are grouped by level of achievement.
On this page: Achievement | Achievement with Merit | Achievement with Excellence
Achievement
Respond critically involves the close analysis and evaluation of aspects such as theme(s), setting, characterisation, context (social, political, historical, etc), conventions of genre, positioning of reader. Also consider how the writer has shaped the text through structure, method of narration, style, and literary features to help make valid judgements about the writer’s purpose and how they have presented their ideas.
Ideas: an idea may be thoughts, feelings, senses, and/or experiences, an opinion on a topic, facts, or information. Ideas are expressed through language features and style suitable to the text type and audience.
Language features
Style is the way a text sounds and looks due to the choices made by the writer such as narrative point of view and language features. Style may include informal or formal language depending on the purpose and audience of the text. For example a teenage audience would most probably find modern colloquial language more appealing than an older audience would.
Achievement with Merit
Analytically means with detailed examination.
Achievement with Excellence
Sustained perception means you are able to make unique observations that are meaningful, relevant, and significant about a text throughout your answer. A mature response to the text will allow you to make conclusions about the wider meaning of the themes and character development in the text and show an understanding of the writer’s intended purpose.
