English flashcards

165 QCE English cards across 4 modules (81 definitions, 82 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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Definition
Aesthetic features and craft: QCE English Unit 1 Year 11
Define Link to the larger claim
Link to the larger claim (the text's perspective, representation, cultural assumption).
Definition
Analytical essay structure (QCE English Unit 2)
Define E (Evidence)
Quoted textual material with line or page reference.
Definition
Aesthetic features and stylistic devices in literary texts (QCE English Unit 3)
Define Aesthetic features
Properties of the text as a whole or of large sections of it. Form, structure, voice, focalisation, tone, atmosphere, pacing, narrative time, intertextuality. Aesthetic features operate at the scale of the chapter, the section, the novel.
Definition
Building an analytical thesis for the QCE English EA: Unit 4 Topic 2
Define Not a theme label
"The text explores power" labels a theme. A thesis says something specific about how the text explores power.
Definition
Features of an analytical response: QCE English Unit 1 Year 11
Define Opening claim
A specific observation about the text engaging the prompt.
Definition
Characterisation and narrative perspective (QCE English Unit 2)
Define Direct
The narrator tells the reader about a character ("She was thoughtful and kind").
Definition
Analytical response genre conventions: IA1 extended response for a public audience (QCE English Unit 3)
Define Quotation as evidence
Short quoted phrases woven into your own sentences. Long block quotations are not analytical genre; they signal a writer relying on the text to do the analytical work.
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Close engagement and source fidelity in creative response: QCE English Unit 4 (IA3)
Define It does not mean plot fidelity
A response that re-tells the source's plot in the same order does not necessarily engage with the source's craft. Plot fidelity is neither necessary nor sufficient for close engagement.
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Audience, reception and reading positions (QCE English Unit 1)
Define Actual audience
Anyone who reads the text. Can include readers far removed from the intended audience by time, culture, age or political position.
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Close reading and textual analysis (QCE English Unit 2)
Define Annotate
Underline words that surprise, repeat, or carry weight. Mark patterns.