Free QCE Year 11 Literature Flashcard Review
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Point of view
The stance, shaped by beliefs and experience, from which a reader interprets.
Context (reader)
The time, place, culture and circumstances a reader brings to a text.
Cultural assumption
An idea taken for granted by a society and built into a text.
Value (in a text)
What the text treats as important or good.
Attitude
A settled way of regarding people, ideas or events.
Representation
A constructed version of a concept, identity, time or place.
Mode
The channel of communication: spoken, written, visual or multimodal.
Medium
The material means of delivery, such as book, stage or screen.
Form
The kind of text, such as sonnet, memoir or graphic novel.
Initial personal response chain
Reaction, then evidence from the text, then the reason for the reaction.
Empathetic response
Entering the text's world and sharing a character's feelings.
Critical response
Stepping back to question the text's values, omissions and assumptions.
What is a stylistic device?
A technique of language, such as metaphor or repetition, used deliberately to create an effect.
What is the Identify, Quote, Explain, Link routine?
Name the choice, quote short evidence, explain its effect on a reader, and link to a larger idea.
What is feature spotting?
Naming devices without saying what they do; it earns little credit.
Difference between simile and metaphor?
A simile compares using like or as; a metaphor says one thing is another.
What is personification?
Giving human qualities or actions to non-human things.
What is a motif?
A recurring image, symbol or idea that builds meaning across a text.
What does a cyclical structure suggest?
Ending where the text began, often suggesting entrapment, repetition or limited change.
What is in medias res?
Beginning a story in the middle of the action.