This document provides a series of questions to guide analysis of an unseen article or document. The questions probe for the main topic, central argument, intended audience, key supporting arguments, tone, persuasive techniques used, and inferences that can be drawn from any images.

1. Exam Questions – Language Analysis – Key Questions
1. What isthe issue (topicof the article)? /1 Marks
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1. What isthe authorscontention(mainargument)? /1 Marks
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2. What do youthinkisthe intendedaudience forthispiece? Listatleast2 possible groups
/2 Marks
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3. What are the authors arguments(use dotpoints)? /3 Marks
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4. Write a sentence describingthe tone of the piece.Use atleastthree (3) differentwords to
describe the tone of the piece. /3 Marks
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Please Refer to the next page for the last two questions.

2. 5. Name five (5) PersuasiveTechniques,provideanexample,thenprovide the intendedeffect
of thispersuasive technique: /15 Marks
Technique Name Example IntendedEffect
6. Use the followingtable todrawoutyour understandingof the image providedwiththe
article. /3 Marks
What the image shows What the image doesnotshow
(thatyou wouldexpectitmight)
Therefore whatdoyouinfer
(understandthe message to
be)?