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Unit 2: Texts and culture

Quick questions on Comparing texts and intertextuality: QCE English Unit 2 Year 11

15short Q&A pairs drawn directly from our worked dot-point answer. For full context and worked exam questions, read the parent dot-point page.

What is convergence?
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Both texts arrive at similar claims by different means. Convergence demonstrates the claim's reach across different forms or contexts.
What is divergence?
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The texts treat the concern on materially different terms. Divergence reveals the contingency of each text's approach.
What is complication?
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One text reads as a counter or qualification of the other. Complication exposes blind spots or limits.
What is extension?
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One text takes the other's territory and develops it further. Extension shows the scope of an idea.
What is topic sentence?
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Names the shared concern and the comparative relationship.
What is anchor in Text A?
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A specific moment, craft choice, embedded quotation, named feature, argued effect.
What is anchor in Text B?
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The comparative moment in the second text.
What is comparative move?
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A sentence that argues what the side-by-side reveals.
What is closing sentence?
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Returns to the prompt or thesis.
What is allusion?
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A text refers explicitly or implicitly to another text. (A novel borrowing Shakespearean phrases; a film referencing earlier films.)
What is parody?
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Comic or critical imitation.
What is adaptation?
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Reworking in a different medium (novel to film, play to opera).
What is retelling?
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A canonical narrative re-told from another perspective (Penelope's Odyssey, Grendel from Beowulf).
What is genre conventions?
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A text in a genre invokes the genre's whole history.
What is relationship?
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Divergence in form (drama vs novel) and context (19th-century European vs contemporary global) with convergence in concern (voicelessness).

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