English Language GCSE
Emotional impact and reader response
What Emotional impact and reader response means in English Language GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Creating emotional impact through concrete detail and appeals to shared experience.
Topics that use Emotional impact and reader response
- Writing (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- audience
- point of view
- purpose
- Purposeful rhetorical devices
- Selection and organisation of material
- Pertinent use of evidence and quotation
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