Free VCE Year 11 Literature Flashcard Review
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What does 'close analysis' mean?
Reading slowly to explain how specific choices in a text create meaning and effects.
Why is significance important when discussing a setting?
You must explain what difference the setting makes to the reader's understanding, not just name it.
What makes evidence strong?
It is short, exact, embedded in your own sentence and followed by analysis.
Name the three-step chain for explaining a feature.
Identify the choice, describe its effect on the reader, connect it to meaning.
What does first-person narration offer and risk?
Intimacy with the narrator's thoughts, but the narrator may be unreliable.
What is enjambment?
A sentence or phrase running over a line break in a poem, creating momentum or spilling effect.
How do film techniques resemble imagery in print?
Shots, lighting, sound and editing shape mood and meaning just as images and symbols do in print.
Why might others' readings be useful?
They can reveal missed details, offer rival readings to test, and show assumptions about culture and society.
How should you apply a critic's interpretation?
State it accurately, test it against textual evidence, then agree, partly agree or challenge with reasons.
What is a contention?
The central argument of a response, stated early and developed in every paragraph.
What is signposting in an oral response?
Phrases such as 'my first point is' that help listeners follow the argument.
Name two conventions of discussion.
Listen and respond to others' points respectfully, and support claims with evidence from the text.
What is a convention in literature?
A technique or feature that readers expect to see repeatedly in texts of a particular genre or movement.
Name the four groups of conventions named in the study design.
Language, settings, narrative structures and characterisation.
What does the Gothic setting often reflect?
A character's mental or emotional state, as in Poe's cracked Usher mansion mirroring Roderick Usher.
What is the sublime?
A response of awe mixed with terror to vast or overwhelming nature, common in Romantic and Gothic writing.
What is a framed narrative?
A story told inside another narrative or set of documents, such as Walton's letters containing Victor's tale.
Which text is the complete text used as the model in this topic?
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), read alongside samples such as Poe's short stories and Stoker's Dracula.
What does it mean to explore replication of conventions?
To track how a convention appears in the complete text and recurs, with variation, across other typical texts.
Name three common Gothic ideas and concerns.
Dangers of unchecked ambition, isolation and alienation, and the crossing of boundaries between life and death or human and monster.