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English Literary StudiesQ&A by dot point
A short Q&A bank for every SA English Literary Studies syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.
Creating Texts (20%)
- Craft an original text that uses literary conventions deliberately and explains those choices to demonstrate control of form and effect.0Q&A pairs
- Create an original written, oral or multimodal text that uses literary conventions deliberately to demonstrate command of craft learned from studied texts.0Q&A pairs
- Create a re-creative or transformative text that reshapes a studied text and uses the new form to demonstrate critical understanding of the original.0Q&A pairs
- Write a writer's statement that explains the deliberate choices behind a transformative text and demonstrates critical understanding of the original.0Q&A pairs
Responding to Texts (50%)
- Analyse how a text is shaped by its author's choices and by the contexts of its production and reception.0Q&A pairs
- Use close textual analysis of the short texts studied in class to develop one informed, sustained interpretation rather than a survey of features.0Q&A pairs
- Analyse how visual and graphic elements - image, composition, layout and their relationship to words - create meaning and effect in a literary text.1Q&A pairs
- Read closely and analyse how specific language and structural choices in a passage produce meaning and effect.0Q&A pairs
- Compare how two or more texts represent ideas, perspectives and values, and analyse what the comparison reveals.0Q&A pairs
- Evaluate how different critical perspectives produce different readings of a text and argue a reasoned position among them.0Q&A pairs
- Analyse how a text conveys values, attitudes and ideologies and positions its reader to accept or resist them through its language and structural choices.1Q&A pairs
- Analyse how a text draws meaning from its references to, echoes of, or evocation of other texts, and explain the effect of those connections.0Q&A pairs
- Apply a named critical perspective to a text and analyse how that lens foregrounds particular features and produces a specific reading.0Q&A pairs
- Structure a sustained analytical response so that a clear thesis governs every paragraph and the argument develops toward a considered conclusion.0Q&A pairs
- Use appropriate critical terminology and metalanguage accurately to evaluate texts and justify interpretations with precision.0Q&A pairs
- Analyse how voice, point of view and narrative perspective shape what a reader knows and how a reader judges, and explain the effect of the chosen vantage.0Q&A pairs
Text Study (external, 30%)
- Adapt close-reading strategy to the text type in front of you - poetry, prose fiction or non-fiction - so you analyse what each form makes most meaningful.0Q&A pairs
- Select an independent text to compare with a shared-study text so the pairing shares enough common ground to argue and enough difference to reveal something.0Q&A pairs
- Develop a focused, arguable inquiry question that drives a genuine comparison of two texts for the Comparative Text Study.2Q&A pairs
- Plan and write the external Comparative Text Study critical essay as an integrated comparison driven by a single arguable thesis.0Q&A pairs
- Respond to unseen text in the 90-minute Critical Reading exam by analysing closely and arguing a focused response under time pressure.0Q&A pairs