Literature flashcards

23 TCE Literature cards across 2 modules (2 definitions, 12 key facts, 9 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

Interpreting Literary Texts (12 cards, 6 dot points)
Literature, Contexts and Values (11 cards, 6 dot points)

Sample cards from this deck

Definition
Analysing Poetry, Prose and Drama - TCE English Literature (Tasmania)
Define Drama
Drama is written for performance, so analyse it as a script with an implied stage. Read dialogue for subtext - what characters mean beneath what they say - and for how speech reveals power and relationship. Attend to stage directions, entrances and exits, soliloquy and aside, dramatic irony (where the audience knows more than a character), and the visual dimension of staging, props and silence. A pause in performance can carry as much meaning as a speech.
Fill the gap
How Texts Reflect Values - TCE English Literature (Tasmania)
It can ___ a value, simply embodying the assumptions of its context without comment.
It can reflect a value, simply embodying the assumptions of its context without comment.
Definition
Close Reading and Analysis - TCE English Literature (Tasmania)
Define Diction
Diction is word choice and its connotations - whether language is harsh, tender, clinical or grand. Imagery covers the sensory pictures a text builds, including metaphor and simile. Sound includes alliteration, assonance, rhythm and the pace created by punctuation. Form and structure cover how the text is organised: stanza or paragraph shape, line breaks, sentence length, ordering of ideas, and turning points. The best answers weave these layers together rather than listing them.
Fill the gap
The Imaginative Response - TCE English Literature (Tasmania)
___ should be consistent and purposeful; a narrator's diction, rhythm and what they notice all build character.
Voice should be consistent and purposeful; a narrator's diction, rhythm and what they notice all build character.
Fill the gap
Applying Critical Perspectives - TCE English Literature (Tasmania)
The ___ lens asks how a text represents gender: who holds power, whose desires drive the plot, how women are described, and whether the text reinforces or challenges stereotypes.
The feminist lens asks how a text represents gender: who holds power, whose desires drive the plot, how women are described, and whether the text reinforces or challenges stereotypes.
Fill the gap
The Single Text In-Depth Study - TCE English Literature (Tasmania)
Read the whole text more than once, and read the second time looking for ___.
Read the whole text more than once, and read the second time looking for patterns.
Fill the gap
Context and the Composition of Texts - TCE English Literature (Tasmania)
___ include the historical moment, the literary movements an author worked within or against, the available forms and conventions, and the author's own circumstances.
Contexts of production include the historical moment, the literary movements an author worked within or against, the available forms and conventions, and the author's own circumstances.
Fill the gap
The Transformative Creative Response - TCE English Literature (Tasmania)
You can change ___ - turning a scene of a play into a poem, or a poem into a short prose monologue - which forces you to engage with how form makes meaning.
You can change form - turning a scene of a play into a poem, or a poem into a short prose monologue - which forces you to engage with how form makes meaning.
Fill the gap
Writing the Analytical Essay - TCE English Literature (Tasmania)
Organise the body around ___, with each paragraph advancing one clear point that supports the thesis.
Organise the body around ideas, with each paragraph advancing one clear point that supports the thesis.
Key fact
Comparative Analysis - TCE English Literature (Tasmania)
Tell me about Choosing the basis of comparison
Before you can integrate, you have to decide what the texts are being compared on. A weak comparison floats free, noticing whatever similarities happen to surface; a strong one fixes a clear basis and tests both texts against it.