Answer to Question #220004 in English for Tanya msimango

Question

Question 2

(8 marks)

  Refer to activity 17.3 on page 94 and the commentary which appears on page 169 of the prescribed textbook How to Analyse Texts. Study the cartoon below and answer the questions that follow.

[Total Marks 25]

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TEXT B

The cartoon shows a teacher conducting an oral examination with a student. Study the cartoon and answer the question that follow.

Adapted from: https://eileenrockefeller.com/me-myself-and-i-pet-peeves-with-grammar/ Date: 22 August 2020

Write an essay of no more than a 1.5 pages in which you critically analyse the cartoon focusing on some or all of the following language features.

• the tone

• Word choice, punctuation

• Intended meaning and the understood meaning.

• Communication breakdown.

• Any other linguistic features you may think of.

N.B. your essay must be presented in coherent and continuous prose.

Answer 1

Making the understudies have a good laugh and making them reason is one of the primary targets of the animation. In animated motion pictures, there is usually a fundamental viewpoint. The point deliberated on with the imagination is mentioned to be inspected with a virtual standpoint by the student. Course inferences shown in the animation are principally reasonable, with its theme being powerful and essential. There is no breakdown of communication. As such, the animation can act as a substitute in specific frameworks.