Free HSC Year 11 English Extension Flashcard Review

Text, author, reader and context.

The historical, social, cultural and personal circumstances around composing and receiving a text.

The text draws on the beliefs, genres, language and assumptions of the culture in which it was made.

Later audiences interpret the text through their own cultural frameworks, giving it new value or meaning.

Content is what the text is about; form is the shape it takes, such as novel, letter, sonnet or speech.

The distinctive manner in which a composer combines language and structure.

Specialised vocabulary for analysing texts, used to explain effect rather than just name techniques.

An outer story that contains one or more inner stories, as in Frankenstein's nested narrators.

A link to the myth of stealing fire, framing Victor's act as a dangerous transgression of limits.

Intention cannot be known for certain; argue instead from how the text positions readers.

Identify a feature, explain its effect, link it to a contextual value, evaluate whether the text endorses or questions it.

Readers' cultures and priorities change, so they notice and prize different aspects of the text.

A belief about what is good, right, important or normal that a text expresses or builds.

Who appears in a text and how they are portrayed.

To steer the audience toward a preferred reading through the composer's choices.

Reading against the grain by noticing gaps or tensions the text does not endorse.

Leaving a group voiceless quietly privileges the voices that are heard.

It expresses or reinforces an attitude common in its context.

It questions, subverts or rejects an accepted attitude, often through irony or a marginalised voice.

It explains why a composer took a position and prevents judging old texts only by present standards.