English Language GCSE
Purpose, audience and context adaptation
What Purpose, audience and context adaptation means in English Language GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Purpose, audience and context adaptation
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Selecting vocabulary, grammar, form, and structural and organisational features judiciously to reflect audience, purpose and context.
Topics that use Purpose, audience and context adaptation
- Component 1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing - 1.2 Writing (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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- Emotional and persuasive impact
- Evidence and quotation
- Imaginative and sensory language
- Narrative and descriptive structure
- Purposeful rhetorical devices
- Selection and emphasis
- Voice, tone and viewpoint consistency
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