English flashcards

162 HSC English cards across 6 modules (80 definitions, 80 key facts, 2 fill-the-gap, 0 formulas). Each session gives you 20 cards, due cards first. Swipe right for easy, left for hard, down for again. Keyboard: Space to flip, 1 to 4 to rate.

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What this deck covers

Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences (32 cards, 8 dot points)
Module A (Standard): Language, Identity and Culture (20 cards, 5 dot points)
Module A: Textual Conversations (29 cards, 7 dot points)
Module B: Critical Study of Literature (33 cards, 8 dot points)
Module B (Standard): Close Study of Literature (20 cards, 5 dot points)
Module C: The Craft of Writing (28 cards, 7 dot points)

Sample cards from this deck

Definition
Anomalies and paradoxes in human behaviour: HSC English Common Module
Define For anomalies
Re-read a chapter or scene and find the line that surprised you the first time. Trust the surprise. Then ask: what pattern did the text set up that this line breaks? What language feature carries the break (tone, syntax, image, dialogue rhythm)? What does the break invite the responder to revise?
Definition
Compositional choices and the expression of identity and culture in HSC English Standard Module A
Define Form-scale choices
Genre, length, structure, sequence, narrative perspective. The decision to write a novel rather than a memoir, a play rather than a poem, a fragmented sequence rather than a chronological one. These are the largest decisions the composer makes.
Definition
Personal perspective and the comparative study: HSC English Advanced Module A
Define Re-hearing
A passage in the earlier text that read one way before the later text reads differently afterwards. The later text has taught you what to listen for. A description in Austen reads with different ironies after Weldon; a Donne sonnet sounds different after Edson's W;t.
Definition
Contexts of composition and reception in HSC English Advanced Module B
Define Intellectual context
The ideas, debates, and frameworks in circulation when the text was made. The intellectual context of King Lear includes early-modern debates about kingship and the relationship between authority and nature. The intellectual context of 1984 includes the late-1940s analysis of totalitarianism.
Definition
Distinctive language features in HSC English Standard Module B
Define Lexical signature
The vocabulary the text reaches for, especially when it does something unusual. A text that uses scientific vocabulary in a context that does not require it; a text that uses archaic vocabulary in a contemporary frame; a text whose lexicon is rigorously plain in a tradition that allowed ornament. The lexical signature is often the first place distinctiveness shows.
Definition
Audience, purpose, and context in HSC English Advanced Module C
Define Direct address
A second-person pronoun, a named addressee, an apostrophic gesture. The most explicit audience marker.
Definition
How texts represent human experiences: HSC English Common Module
Define Fragmentation
A fragmented chronology represents experience as memory, not as plot. Past the Shallows uses temporal fragments to render trauma the way trauma is actually carried (in flashes rather than narratives).
Definition
Integrated language study in HSC English Standard Module A
Define Sentence and rhythm
The syntactic structure of the prose or verse. Sentence length and clause arrangement. The pacing and rhythm of the language. The way one sentence relates to the next.
Definition
Contextual shift between paired texts: HSC English Advanced Module A
Define Intellectual context
The prevailing ideas, philosophies, and scientific frameworks. The intellectual context of Frankenstein includes Romantic-era anxiety about science and Lockean theories of the self. The intellectual context of Blade Runner includes late-twentieth-century anxiety about genetic engineering, corporate biotechnology, and what it means to be human when life can be manufactured and given a fixed lifespan.
Definition
Developing a personal perspective in HSC English Advanced Module B
Define Considered
The perspective has been thought through across the text, not asserted on first encounter. A considered perspective survives attention to passages that might complicate it. The marker looks for evidence that the position has been tested.