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Section A: Comprehension [30 MARKS]
Section B: Summary [10 MARKS]
Section C: Language [30 MARKS]
→ Question 3: 10 marks 1 or 2 advertisements (Combination of visual and written/verbal text)
→ Question 4: 10 marks Cartoon
→ Question 5: 10 marks Prose (Language Style Questions)
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What is visual literacy?
Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented
in the form of an image, extending the meaning of literacy, which commonly signifies interpretation
of a written or printed text. Visual literacy is based on the idea that pictures can be “read” and that
meaning can be
communicated through a process of reading.
Hints:
When looking at a comic strip or a cartoon, pay attention to the following:
Visual clues:
Some parts of the drawing which may be used to help the
reader establish what the cartoon is about.
Body language Gestures Facial expressions
How do they use their Movement of hands Do they look sad, happy,
bodies to convey a certain irritated, angry etc.
message: non-verbal
communication
Scale Setting: Movement lines:
Is one character bigger What is the background to the Movement is indicated by means
than the other? pictures? of vertical, curved and diagonal
lines. Speedy action is indicated
by streaky lines, or by the action
going out of the frame
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Caricature: features or Visual metaphor: in a metaphor Stereotyping: An
actions of a person are two things are compared. In a exaggerated preconceived
exaggerated to help the visual metaphor, a picture stands generalisation about the
reader work out who is being for or represents something else typical behaviour, attitudes,
represented or what aspect dress, etc. of various types
of the person’s character is of people.
being emphasised.
Verbal communication (What do the characters say?)
Speech bubbles: Tone (of voice). FONT size (size of letters in
The WAY in which something is the text)
said, e.g. monotonous
It refers to the size and type
indicate
of letters used. Larger or bold
the words spoken by the
letters are used for
character.
emphasis.
Thought bubbles:
show what the character is
thinking.
Frame Each separate picture in a comic strip is called a frame.
Punchline The final phrase or sentence of a cartoon, providing the humour.
The different frames usually build up to the punch line in the last
frame.
Irony When one thing is said, but something else is meant.
Satire Uses humour to make a serious point. It involves using wit, irony or
sarcasm to highlight human vices or follies.
Anti-climax This is when tension is created and we expect something
important or exciting to happen, but instead, the ending is very
ordinary or a let-down.
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