English flashcards

38 WACE English cards across 2 modules (0 definitions, 38 key facts, 0 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 3: Responding to and Creating Texts in Contexts (18 cards, 9 dot points)
Unit 4: Perspectives, Argument and Response (20 cards, 10 dot points)

Sample cards from this deck

Key fact
Context, purpose and audience: WACE Year 12 English Unit 3
Tell me about Naming purpose precisely
Avoid the lazy trio of to inform, to persuade, to entertain. Push for a specific purpose.
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Analysing multimodal and visual texts: WACE Year 12 English Unit 4
Tell me about A camera angle is a position
Visual choices construct perspective in the literal and the analytical sense. A low angle looking up at a figure positions the viewer to feel small before them, lending the subject power.
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Comparing texts across genres and contexts: WACE Year 12 English Unit 3
Tell me about Let genre, mode and context explain the difference
Once you have a shared subject, the difference between texts is rarely accidental. A protest song and a parliamentary speech can address the same injustice and reach opposite tones because their genres carry different contracts with an audience.
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Analysing perspectives and representations: WACE Year 12 English Unit 4
Tell me about Perspective is the position a text takes
A perspective is the particular standpoint from which a subject is viewed. Texts encode perspective through word choice (a crowd described as a mob versus a gathering), through framing (whose experience anchors the story), and through what is treated as obvious and what is treated as questionable.
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Creative composition in context: WACE Year 12 English Unit 3
Tell me about Control the genre you choose
Each form carries conventions the marker expects you to handle. A short narrative wants a controlling image, a turn, and an ending that resonates rather than merely stops.
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Comprehending unseen texts: WACE Year 12 English Unit 4
Tell me about A repeatable first read
Under time pressure, read with a fixed set of questions rather than reading aimlessly. Annotate as you go.
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Genre conventions and text structures: WACE Year 12 English Unit 3
Tell me about Conventions are expectations, not rules
Think of conventions as a contract between writer and reader. A horror story conventionally builds dread, isolates its protagonist and withholds the threat.
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Constructions of identity, culture and place: WACE Year 12 English Unit 4
Tell me about Culture is constructed through selection
A text cannot show a whole culture, so it selects, and the selection makes an argument. Which practices, values and voices a text foregrounds builds a particular version of a culture, and which it omits shapes that version just as powerfully.
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Ideas, attitudes and values in texts: WACE Year 12 English Unit 3
Tell me about Separate idea, attitude and value
A precise answer names all three and shows how the text moves from raising an idea to taking an attitude to resting on a value.
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Critical reading positions and resistant readings: WACE Year 12 English Unit 4
Tell me about Critical lenses give resistance a direction
A resistant reading is not just disagreeing. It reads the text through a particular critical position that asks particular questions.