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26 Cards in this Set
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Themes
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refers to the central idea or ideas explored in a text. A theme needs to be a statement. example: Love sucks.
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Setting
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The place and context in which the events of the story occurs. It includes time, place and atmosphere.
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Point of view
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The perspective from which a narrator presents a narrative. It can be from 1st person (from a character within the story, refers to "I"), 2nd person (the narrator directly addresses the audience, using "you"), 3rd person (from narrator tell a story and is not involved in the story, "he, she")
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Characterisation
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The concept of creating characters for a narrative. Consider how these elements are presented:
appearance personality interaction with other characters and say about them. dialogue What they say. |
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Plot
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The structure of events in a story to produce curiosity an suspense in readers.
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Issues
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an idea or set of ideas explored in the text
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Values and attitudes
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Values are important and enduring beliefs or ideals shared by the members of a culture about what is good or desirable and what is not. For example: "we value honesty."
Attitudes are whether you respond positively or negatively towards a certain idea, object, person, or situation. |
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Metaphor and extended metaphor
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A figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of another, i.e. love is a rose.
An extended metaphor is a metaphor that carries on throughout the poem, continuing and building on the same comparison. |
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Simile
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A figure of speech in which and object is compared to another. This comparison is set up by using "like" or "as." Example: bent double, like old beggars."
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Personification
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A figure of speech that give human qualities to objects or ideas. Example: "the lights glared down at me."
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alliteration
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The repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Example: "the fair breeze blew."
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onomatopoeia
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A figure of speech in which the sound of the word is an echo of its sense. For example: whoosh, splat, pop, bang.
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Assonance
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The repetition of a vowel sound to create a particular effect.
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hyperbole
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A figure of speech that presents an exaggeration for emphasis.
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Rhythm and Rhyme
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the occurrence of similar sounds in lines of verse. Rhythm is the sense of movement or beat pattern in the syllables of words in text.
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Imagery
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the pictures conjured by a text in the reader's imagination. Appeals are made to our sense in the text. Figurative language is often used to create this.
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Rhetorical questions
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A question that does not require an answer.
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Facts and statistics
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a thing that is known or proved to be true. A statistic is a piece of data to prove or support a point.
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evidence
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Material provided in support of an idea or argument.
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rule of three
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Ideas presented in groups of three or repetition of an idea three times. "I am disgusted, astounded and outraged."
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opinion
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a view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. What you believe.
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anecdote
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a small story that illustrates a point.
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style
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The way a writer uses language. You need to look at tone, sentence structure and word choice.
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plot structure
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This is how the story is laid out. Is it chronological? Does it contain flash backs?
You should identify the: Exposition - the opening of the text Rising action - as suspense builds and problems are introduced. Climax- highest point of action Resolution - problem is resolved. |
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symbol
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An object that stands for something else.
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SWAT
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Visual codes to identify when analysing a viewing text.
S - Symbolic W - written A - Audio T - Technical |
