Latin A-Level
Authorial technique and purpose
What Authorial technique and purpose means in Latin A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Authorial technique and purpose
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Using your reading to explain why the set author writes as they do, for example how historians shape narrative, characterise speakers and explain causes.
Topics that use Authorial technique and purpose
- 2c. Content of Prose Literature (H443/03) (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Accurate recall of prose set text content
- Contextual knowledge applied to text
- Contextual reading in English translation
- Intertextual comparison between ancient works
- Literary genre and its conventions
- Matching term to Latin wording
- Necessity and relevance of background
- Precise literary terminology
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