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Read the following extract from a blog post.
“Okay, so I just spent the last three hours trying to troubleshoot my printer. Three hours! I swear, technology is designed to make us miserable. First, it wouldn’t connect to the Wi-Fi. Then, it kept printing gibberish. Then, it decided to throw a tantrum and refuse to print anything at all. I’ve read countless online articles, watched YouTube tutorials, and even called tech support (which, by the way, was completely useless). I’m seriously considering going back to pen and paper. It would probably be less stressful. Honestly, I think these tech companies are deliberately making things complicated just to sell us more gadgets. It’s a conspiracy, I tell you! A conspiracy!”
How does the writer use language to create a particular effect on the reader? Consider the writer’s tone, vocabulary, and sentence structure.
Question 3: Consider a text or speech where the writer or speaker deliberately manipulates conventions of form, structure, and language. What might be their purpose in doing so? Use specific examples from the text/speech to support your argument.
Question 1: Analyse the ways in which writers’ and speakers’ choices of form, structure and language produce meaning and style in a text or speech you have studied.