How spelling is used in texts for particular effects; for...

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• understand how spelling is used in texts for particular effects; for example, characterisation, humour and to represent accents and distinctive speech
• exploring the spelling of neologisms and their effect in media texts such as online posts; for example, “selfie” and “Paralympics”
• analysing how spelling is used to represent the distinctive speech of a character by noting where authors have dropped letters from words to emulate…