English flashcards

60 SACE English cards across 3 modules (19 definitions, 30 key facts, 11 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

Comparative Analysis (external, 30%) (15 cards, 4 dot points)
Creating Texts (40%) (21 cards, 5 dot points)
Responding to Texts (30%) (24 cards, 6 dot points)

Sample cards from this deck

Definition
Building a comparative thesis (SACE Stage 2 English)
Define Comparative thesis
A single, arguable statement about the relationship between two texts that frames the entire response.
Definition
Creating imaginative and recreative texts (SACE Stage 2 English)
Define Sensory and concrete detail
Specific, telling images rather than abstract summary - "show" the world.
Definition
Analysing how language positions audiences (SACE Stage 2 English)
Define Describe the positioning
What is the audience invited to feel, think or judge? Be specific about direction: drawn toward, repelled from, made complicit, reassured.
Definition
Comparing ideas, perspectives and values (SACE Stage 2 English)
Define Values (in a text)
The underlying assumptions a text makes about what is important, right or desirable - often unstated and presented as simply natural. Comparing the values two texts assume reveals their deepest agreements and disagreements, beneath the level of plot or stated theme.
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Creating persuasive texts (SACE Stage 2 English)
Define Contention
The central, arguable position a persuasive text asks its audience to accept. Everything in the piece - evidence, appeals, tone, structure - should be working to make that one position feel reasonable and even inevitable.
Definition
Analysing perspectives and representations (SACE Stage 2 English)
Define Perspective vs representation
A representation is the constructed version of a subject a text presents (e.g. how a refugee is portrayed). A perspective is the attitudinal position behind it (e.g. compassionate, suspicious, romanticised).
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Comparing language and stylistic features (SACE Stage 2 English)
Define Stylistic comparison
Analysis of how two texts' language and structural choices each create meaning, set side by side so that their similarities and differences illuminate the texts' distinct effects and purposes.
Definition
Manipulating language and stylistic features (SACE Stage 2 English)
Define Stylistic control
The deliberate manipulation of language choices to produce a specific intended effect on a reader. Control is visible when a feature could not be removed or changed without measurably altering the effect of the passage.
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Analysing stylistic features and conventions (SACE Stage 2 English)
Define Convention
A feature an audience expects of a given text type because of accumulated practice - for example, balanced sourcing in journalism, or end-of-line rhyme in traditional verse. Conventions create expectations a writer can satisfy or deliberately disrupt.
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Structuring an integrated comparison (SACE Stage 2 English)
Define Integrated comparison
An essay structure in which every body paragraph is organised around a point of comparison and analyses both texts in relation to it, rather than dealing with each text in a separate block. Integration is what makes a comparison read as one argument about a relationship between texts.