Literature syllabus, dot point by dot point
Every dot point in the QLD Literature syllabus, in syllabus order, with a focused answer for each. Open any dot point for the answer, exam-style questions and links to related points.
Unit 3: Literature and identity
Unit overview →How do the aesthetic features and stylistic devices of a literary text create its effects and shape a reader's response?
How do the cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs inside a literary text shape the reading it invites?
How does a literary text draw on other texts, and what does that borrowing do to its meaning?
How do literary texts represent the relationship between language, culture and identity?
What does it mean to read a literary text in different ways, and how does the way of reading change what the text seems to mean?
How do the context a text was made in and the context it is read in each shape its meaning?
How do perspectives within and around a literary text shape the representation of identity?
How does the power of language allow literary texts to represent ideas, events and people?
How does a literary text invite a reader to take up a particular position, and how can a reader become aware of the invitation?
How can an imaginative transformation of a literary text demonstrate understanding of identity and representation?
Unit 4: Independent explorations
Unit overview →How does reading two literary texts against each other produce meaning neither text holds alone?
How do you build a sustained analytical thesis about a literary text under examination conditions?
How do critical perspectives change the questions a reader asks of a literary text?
What does a close reading of drama attend to, and how do dialogue, structure and the stage carry meaning?
What does a literary close reading of a poem attend to, and how do form and sound carry meaning?
What does a close reading of prose fiction attend to, and how do narration and sentence-level choices shape meaning?
How do style, structure and subject matter work together to produce a text's effect?
How does a text build a character, and how does the choice of whose perception we share shape our reading?
Why does the interpretation of a literary text change across readers, contexts and time?
How does the order a text reveals its events in shape what those events mean?
How do point of view and narrative voice control what a reader knows and how they judge it?
How do setting and the mood it generates shape the meaning and emotional pressure of a literary text?
How do symbols, motifs and patterns of imagery build meaning across a whole literary text?
How does a reader draw on a range of existing interpretations to build an independent reading of their own?