Institutional authority
What Institutional authority means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Authority constructed through syntax, formality and tone, for example in a legal register using formal, Latinate terminology and passive constructions.
The position of those who literally hold the levers of power, such as monarch, minister, magistrate, employer, landlord, priest, editor or patriarch.
Topics that use Institutional authority
- Elements of crime writing (AQA A-Level)
- Elements of political and social protest writing (AQA A-Level)
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- Language and power
- Ambiguity and unresolved endings
- Ambition and power
- Betrayal
- Class and social voice
- Closure and resolution
- Crime across literary periods
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