Literature flashcards

What this deck covers

• Unit 3: Interpretations and Perspectives (34 cards, 15 dot points)

  • Analysing style, voice and structure: WACE Year 12 Literature (4)
  • Applying critical perspectives: WACE Year 12 Literature (2)
  • Close reading of literary texts: WACE Year 12 Literature (2)
  • Discourse and language choices: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 3 (2)
  • How representation constructs meaning: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 3 (2)
  • Point of view and narrative perspective: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 3 (2)
  • Reader-response and the positioned reader: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 3 (2)
  • Reading drama and the theatrical text: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 3 (2)
  • Reading poetry closely: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 3 (2)
  • Reading prose fiction closely: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 3 (2)
  • The analytical Literature essay: WACE Year 12 Literature (4)
  • The feminist reading: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 3 (2)
  • The Marxist reading: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 3 (2)
  • The post-colonial reading: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 3 (2)
  • The psychoanalytic reading: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 3 (2)
• Unit 4: Literary Texts, Contexts and Values (28 cards, 14 dot points)

  • Allusion, appropriation and rewriting: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4 (2)
  • Close reading of unseen texts: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4 (2)
  • Comparative and intertextual analysis: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4 (2)
  • Constructing an interpretation under exam conditions: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4 (2)
  • Context of production and reception: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4 (2)
  • Evaluating aesthetic features and literary value: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4 (2)
  • Genre and generic conventions: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4 (2)
  • How texts reflect and challenge values: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4 (2)
  • Ideology and naturalised values: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4 (2)
  • Reading film as a literary text: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4 (2)
  • Resistant and alternative readings: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4 (2)
  • Silences, gaps and the marginalised: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4 (2)
  • The reflective commentary: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4 (2)
  • The transformative creative response: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4 (2)

Sample cards from this deck

1. Definition

   Analysing style, voice and structure: WACE Year 12 Literature

   Define Style

   Style is the recurring texture of the language: diction (plain or ornate, abstract or concrete), sentence rhythm and length, imagery patterns, tone and register. Style is what makes one writer's prose recognisable even without a name attached.

2. Key fact

   Allusion, appropriation and rewriting: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4

   Tell me about Allusion

   An allusion is a brief, often glancing reference to another text, figure or story. Its power is economy: a single phrase can import the whole weight of what it references.

3. Definition

   The analytical Literature essay: WACE Year 12 Literature

   Define Integration of evidence

   Integration of evidence is what separates strong essays from competent ones. Embed short, precise references and analyse them in the same breath, rather than dropping a long quotation and then paraphrasing it. Every piece of evidence should earn its place by advancing the argument, and the analysis should reach an interpretive claim, not stop at identifying a technique.

4. Key fact

   Close reading of unseen texts: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4

   Tell me about A reading method under pressure

   The controlling idea becomes your thesis. Everything you write must defend it.

5. Fill the gap

   Applying critical perspectives: WACE Year 12 Literature

   ___ asks how a text constructs gender: who has agency, whose voice is centred, how women and men are represented, and whether the text reinforces or challenges patriarchal assumptions.

   Feminist criticism asks how a text constructs gender: who has agency, whose voice is centred, how women and men are represented, and whether the text reinforces or challenges patriarchal assumptions.

6. Key fact

   Comparative and intertextual analysis: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4

   Tell me about Find a genuine point of comparison

   A comparison needs a shared concern that the texts treat differently, or a shared treatment that rests on different values.

7. Fill the gap

   Close reading of literary texts: WACE Year 12 Literature

   First, the ___: the exact word, sound, image, syntax or formal feature you are pointing to.

   First, the textual detail: the exact word, sound, image, syntax or formal feature you are pointing to.

8. Key fact

   Constructing an interpretation under exam conditions: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4

   Tell me about Read the question for what it is really asking

   Exam questions in Literature are deliberately open, often built around a concept such as conflict, belonging, power, identity or a critical perspective. The first task is to interpret the question, deciding what concept it foregrounds and how it connects to the text you will write on.

9. Key fact

   Discourse and language choices: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 3

   Tell me about Spotting a discourse

   A discourse announces itself through clusters of related vocabulary and a recognisable logic.

10. Key fact

    Context of production and reception: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4

    Tell me about The context of production

    The context of production is the world that made the text: its historical moment, its social structures, its dominant beliefs, and the literary conventions available to the writer. This context shapes what the text takes for granted, what it can and cannot say, and which assumptions it treats as obvious.