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    The document introduces the "Big 5" textual analysis method for analyzing texts. The Big 5 presents five lenses to analyze texts: audience and purpose, structure, content and theme, stylistic devices, and tone and mood. It explains each lens for analyzing who wrote the text, who it's written for, its organization, main ideas, linguistic tools used, the writer's tone, and the atmosphere created. The document also distinguishes between tone as the writer's attitude and mood as the feeling conveyed to the reader.

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    English L&L Analysis Basic Introduction

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    The document introduces the "Big 5" textual analysis method for analyzing texts. The Big 5 presents five lenses to analyze texts: audience and purpose, structure, content and theme, stylistic devices, and tone and mood. It explains each lens for analyzing who wrote the text, who it's written for, its organization, main ideas, linguistic tools used, the writer's tone, and the atmosphere created. The document also distinguishes between tone as the writer's attitude and mood as the feeling conveyed to the reader.

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    Big 5

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    The document introduces the "Big 5" textual analysis method for analyzing texts. The Big 5 presents five lenses to analyze texts: audience and purpose, structure, content and theme, stylistic devices, and tone and mood. It explains each lens for analyzing who wrote the text, who it's written for, its organization, main ideas, linguistic tools used, the writer's tone, and the atmosphere created. The document also distinguishes between tone as the writer's attitude and mood as the feeling conveyed to the reader.

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    Textual

    Analysis
    What is a text?
    ● Anything that carries meaning.

    ● It could be written or visual


    Textual Analysis Method:
    The Big 5
    • Presents five lenses through which you can
    look at texts.
    • Not all texts are the same, so some lenses will
    be more useful with certain texts than others
    but it’s almost always a good place to start.
    • Mainly used in Paper 1 and IO.
    The Big Five
    AUDIENCE & PURPOSE
    Who wrote the text?
    Who was it written for?
    Why did the writer write it?
    What response does the writer
    want to instigate from the
    audience?
    STRUCTURE
    What is the text type? CONTENT & THEME
    How is the text organized? What is the text about?
    What structural What is the deeper
    conventions are used? message or main idea of
    the text?

    STYLISTIC DEVICES TONE & MOOD


    What kind of linguistic tools What is the writer’s tone?
    does the writer use? What is the atmosphere of
    How the writer uses the text?
    language to instigate a How does the text make
    response from the reader the reader feel?
    Tone vs. Mood

    Tone = author’s attitude towards the writing. It’s


    the way feelings are expressed in the writing.

    Mood = feeling the reader gets when he/she is


    reading the author’s words.
    Sample Analysis
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    References:

    https://www.thinkib.net/englishalanglit/page/11116/the-big-
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