English Literary Studies flashcards

What this deck covers

• Creating Texts (20%) (14 cards, 4 dot points)

  • Crafting with literary conventions (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (4)
  • Creating an original text with critical purpose (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (3)
  • Re-creative and transformative writing (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (4)
  • The writer's statement (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (3)
• Responding to Texts (50%) (40 cards, 12 dot points)

  • Analysing author, text and context (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (4)
  • Analysing short texts in the shared study (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (4)
  • Analysing texts with visual and graphic elements (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (3)
  • Close reading and textual analysis (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (4)
  • Comparing texts and perspectives (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (3)
  • Evaluating different critical interpretations (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (4)
  • How texts convey values and position readers (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (3)
  • Intertextuality and allusion (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (3)
  • Reading from critical perspectives (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (3)
  • Structuring a sustained analytical response (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (3)
  • Using critical terminology and metalanguage (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (3)
  • Voice, point of view and narrative perspective (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (3)
• Text Study (external, 30%) (18 cards, 5 dot points)

  • Analysing unseen poetry, prose and non-fiction (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (3)
  • Choosing your independent comparative text (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (3)
  • Developing your own inquiry question (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (4)
  • The Comparative Text Study essay (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (4)
  • The Critical Reading exam (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies) (4)

Sample cards from this deck

1. Definition

   Crafting with literary conventions (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies)

   Define Literary convention

   An established and recognisable feature of form, genre, structure or technique - such as a genre's typical imagery, a verse form's turn, or a narrative's point of view - that a writer uses deliberately because readers recognise it and respond to it.

2. Definition

   Analysing author, text and context (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies)

   Define Context

   The set of historical, cultural, social and personal conditions surrounding a text - both the circumstances in which it was produced and the circumstances in which it is read - that shape the meanings the text can carry and the responses readers make to it.

3. Definition

   Analysing unseen poetry, prose and non-fiction (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies)

   Define Form-specific reading

   The practice of identifying a text's type and reading first for the features that type makes most meaningful - sound and shape in poetry, narrative craft in fiction, argument and persona in non-fiction - rather than applying one fixed checklist to every passage.

4. Definition

   Creating an original text with critical purpose (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies)

   Define Literary conventions

   The established techniques and patterns of a form or genre - such as a sonnet's turn, a short story's controlled point of view, or a monologue's direct address - which a writer uses deliberately to create meaning and effect.

5. Definition

   Analysing short texts in the shared study (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies)

   Define Sustained interpretation

   A single, arguable reading of a text that is stated clearly and then developed and defended across a whole response, with each piece of evidence chosen because it advances that one reading.

6. Definition

   Choosing your independent comparative text (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies)

   Define Point of contact

   The shared question, idea or value that two texts both address, which gives a comparison something to argue, because each text can be examined for how differently it responds to the same concern.

7. Definition

   Re-creative and transformative writing (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies)

   Define Re-creative writing

   Writing that reshapes a studied text - altering its perspective, voice, form, genre or context - so that the transformation itself expresses an interpretation of the original text and its concerns.

8. Definition

   Analysing texts with visual and graphic elements (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies)

   Define Composition

   The deliberate arrangement of visual elements within a frame - what is foregrounded, centred, framed or marginalised - which guides the viewer's attention and implies relationships and values, much as syntax orders meaning in a sentence.

9. Definition

   Developing your own inquiry question (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies)

   Define Inquiry question

   A focused, arguable question that frames a Comparative Text Study, identifying a genuine point of comparison between two texts and demanding an analytical answer that draws on both.

10. Definition

    The writer's statement (SACE Stage 2 English Literary Studies)

    Define Writer's statement

    A short reflective text accompanying a transformative piece, in which the writer explains the deliberate choices made and links them to the original text, demonstrating critical understanding of how and why the original works.