HSC English Advanced flashcards

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Textual integrity

The coherence of a text's form, language, and meaning, such that its parts combine into a unified whole that sustains critical evaluation over time.

Resonance in Module A

Points of shared concern, value, or technique between paired texts, showing how an earlier text's ideas persist or are reaffirmed in a later context.

Dissonance in Module A

Points of difference between paired texts arising from changed context, ideology, genre, or medium, producing new or contradictory meanings in the later text.

Appropriation

A later composer's deliberate reshaping of an earlier text's characters, plot, or concerns for a new audience and purpose, often to critique the source's values.

Allusion

An indirect reference to another text, figure, or cultural artefact that assumes shared knowledge and adds layered meaning for the informed responder.

Anomaly

Behaviour or an event that departs from expected patterns within a text, used to expose hidden values, tensions, or contradictions in a represented world.

Paradox

A statement or situation that appears self-contradictory yet reveals a deeper truth, often used to illuminate complexity in human motivation and experience.

Collective human experience

Shared experiences shaped by culture, history, or institutions, such as migration, war, or class, represented as affecting groups rather than isolated individuals.

Individual human experience

A single persona's or character's particular encounter with emotion, memory, or event, represented through voice, perspective, and interior reflection.

Retrospective narration

A first-person mode in which an older narrator recounts past events with present knowledge, creating irony and reflective distance between experience and telling.

Pastiche

A composition that imitates the style, structure, or voice of another text or writer, often combining features to create new meaning rather than parody.

Discursive writing

A flexible form blending personal reflection and analysis, exploring a topic through digression and anecdote without arguing a single fixed thesis.

Reflection statement

A metacognitive piece naming specific craft choices, such as structure, voice, or punctuation, and explaining their intended effect on the reader.

Modality

The degree of certainty, obligation, or possibility expressed in language, ranging from high forms like must to low forms like might.

Juxtaposition

The placement of contrasting images, characters, or ideas side by side so the comparison generates meaning beyond either element alone.

Enjambment

The continuation of a sentence across a line break without punctuation, creating momentum, ambiguity, or tension between syntax and line.

Embedded quotation

A short quotation of a few words integrated grammatically into the analyst's own sentence, allowing close word-level analysis rather than block quotation.

TEEEL structure

A paragraph pattern of topic sentence, explanation, evidence, effect on responder, and link, used to build sustained analytical argument.

Critical reception

The body of reviews, scholarly readings, and public responses to a text over time, used as evidence of changing value and interpretation.

Canon

The body of texts culturally regarded as significant and worth studying, whose inclusions and exclusions reflect shifting cultural and institutional values.

Close analysis

Detailed examination of diction, syntax, punctuation, imagery, and structure within a short passage to explain how meaning is produced.

Discovery as process

The idea that discovery is a dynamic, often unsettling experience, producing new understanding of self, others, or the world rather than a fixed endpoint.

Belonging and alienation

The paired concepts describing inclusion within a group and exclusion from it, each shaping identity and often coexisting within a single character's experience.

Related text

A text chosen by the student to extend or complicate the prescribed text's representation of a concept, analysed with the same rigour.

Personal context

An individual's circumstances, including family, class, gender, and formative events, shaping how belonging or discovery is perceived and represented.

Historical context

The social, political, and cultural conditions at a text's moment of production, used as evidence only when tied to specific textual choices.

Dramatic irony

A situation where the audience knows more than a character, creating tension and often exposing the limits of that character's understanding.

Framing narrative

A story told within another story, positioning the inner account through an outer narrator's perspective and shaping how the responder interprets it.

Free indirect discourse

A mode blending third-person narration with a character's idiom and thoughts, creating intimacy while retaining narrative distance and irony.

Thesis statement

A concise, arguable claim answering the question directly, which the essay develops and supports with integrated textual evidence.

Values in context

The dominant beliefs and assumptions of a text's period, which shape representation and explain why a later composer may revise or challenge them.

Complicity

Involvement in or passive acceptance of wrongdoing, often represented through inaction or silence, and used to examine moral responsibility in human experience.