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Unit 8: Stylistic Choices and Sophistication

6 dot points across 6 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do writers use punctuation and structure to control emphasis?

How does concrete, sensory language make an argument vivid and persuasive?

How do irony and figurative language create meaning beyond the literal?

How do rhetorical schemes like repetition and antithesis create effect?

How do writers sustain a vivid, consistent style that earns the sophistication point?

How do sentence structure and length shape meaning and emphasis?