Tone, style and register
What Tone, style and register means in English Language GCSE, as defined for Eduqas, Pearson Edexcel.
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Your attitude, your sentence craft and vocabulary, and your formality level, all adapted to the form, purpose and audience named in the task.
The manner and level of language chosen to match the stated form, purpose and audience, held consistently throughout the text.
Topics that use Tone, style and register
- Assessment - Assessment Objectives and Weightings (Eduqas GCSE)
- Assessment Objectives (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Active listening
- Formal spoken register
- Language analysis
- Structural analysis
- Textual evidence
- Appropriate response to questions
- Audience and purpose
- Audience and purpose in formal speech
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