English flashcards

168 VCE English cards across 4 modules (73 definitions, 74 key facts, 21 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

Unit 1: Reading and exploring texts and Crafting texts (57 cards, 12 dot points)
Unit 2: Reading and exploring texts and Exploring argument (33 cards, 8 dot points)
Unit 3: Reading and Responding to Texts and Creating Texts (48 cards, 10 dot points)
Unit 4: Reading and Responding to Texts and Analysing Argument (30 cards, 7 dot points)

Sample cards from this deck

Definition
Close reading and textual analysis: VCE English Unit 1 Area of Study 1
Define You read for how, not what
A close reading does not ask what the passage is about. It asks how the passage produces its effects. The shift from what to how is the move.
Definition
Analytical commentary on persuasive language: VCE English Unit 2 Year 11
Define Body paragraph 2 (around 200 to 250 words)
The middle moves. Often a tonal shift or argument escalation.
Definition
Conventions of discussion and debate: VCE English Unit 3 Area of Study 1
Define Discussion surfaces evidence
A peer will quote a passage you had not noticed; a teacher will raise a question that reframes a scene you thought you understood. The evidence that comes out of discussion is evidence you can quote in the essay.
Definition
Identifying contention and supporting arguments: VCE English Unit 4 Area of Study 2
Define The contention
The specific position the writer wants the audience to accept.
Definition
Context and the reader: VCE English Unit 1 Area of Study 1
Define Context of production
The conditions under which the text was written. Time, place, social structures, available vocabulary, political pressures, literary expectations, the author's situation. The production context shapes what was sayable, what was assumed, what was provocative.
Definition
Features of a Unit 2 analytical response: VCE English Year 11
Define Contention
A direct response to the prompt's directive verb.
Definition
Discussion and reflection on writing processes: VCE English Unit 3 Area of Study 2
Define Audience terms
Specialist, generalist, sympathetic, sceptical, insider, outsider.
Definition
Persuasive language techniques and their intended effects: VCE English Unit 4 Area of Study 2
Define Appeal to fear
Naming a threat (to the family, the nation, the environment) to motivate action.
Definition
Features of an analytical essay: VCE English Unit 1 Area of Study 1
Define It analyses
Each feature named is connected to an effect on the reader and to the text's ideas, concerns or conflicts.
Definition
Ideas, issues and conflicts in a Unit 2 set text: VCE English Year 11 Area of Study 1
Define Ideas
Ideas are abstract concepts the text engages: identity, memory, power, freedom, family, conformity, resistance, time, fate, justice.