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NSWEnglish Extension 1Quick questions
Common Module: Literary Worlds
Quick questions on Literary worlds defined for HSC English Extension 1
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What is a world is built, not described?Show answer
The crucial move is to stop treating the world as a backdrop and to start treating it as a built object. A setting can be summarised. A world has to be entered. The difference is that a world has rules the reader learns by reading: what is possible, what is forbidden, what counts as ordinary and what counts as a violation.
What is three layers of a literary world?Show answer
To analyse a world, separate three layers and show how they fit.
What is the physical and social fabric?Show answer
What the world is made of: its geography, its institutions, its objects, its weather. This is the layer closest to setting, but it becomes world only when you read its rules.
What is the atmosphere and value system?Show answer
What the world feels like and what it treats as good, dangerous, sacred or worthless. Atmosphere is not decoration; it is the world telling you how to feel about itself.
What is the internal logic?Show answer
The rules by which cause leads to effect. A world where coincidence is meaningful runs on a different logic from a world where everything is contingent. The logic is the deepest layer, and it is usually carried by structure rather than by content.
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