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BAND 6 ENGLISH ADVANCED GLOSSARY
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English (Advanced) HSC Glossary

A. Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences Individual and collective human experiences Emotions: a conscious mental reaction subjectively experienced as strong feeling typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body. The anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies in human behaviour and motivations. ● ● ●

Anomaly: something that deviates from what is standard, normal or expected. Paradox: a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated may prove to be well founded. Inconsistent: not staying the same throughout.

B. Module A: Textual Conversations A comparative study is when you study two texts together and compare them. You will examine what they have in common and also how they differ (resonances and dissonances). This ‘textual conversation’ is facilitated by the very direct relationship between texts. Each pairing made of an earlier text and a more recent text that is either a retelling of, commentary on, or engagement with the older text. Resonance: a reflection or reverberation of something else. In terms of sound, resonance is when something agrees harmonically. We can take this as an analogy for sharing a theme or idea. When we talk of resonance we mean that it is resounding or echoing. Dissonance: an absence of agreement between two things. Returning to the auditory metaphor, it is a harsh clash of sounds. This is a way of suggesting that two texts present different perspectives on an idea, or that a specific theme/idea is entirely absent from one of the texts. ‘Reimagining or reframing of an aspect of a text might mirror, align or collide with details of another text.’ ‘Common or disparate issues, values, assumptions or perspectives’ Conventions: accepted practices that have developed over time. Contexts: range of historical, geographical, social, and cultural circumstances surrounding a text and its composition.

C. Module B: Critical Study of Literature Textual integrity: the unity of a text; its coherent use of form and language to produce an integrated whole in terms of meaning and value. ●

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Organic unity: A text can demonstrate textual integrity of the themes and techniques of the text come together to form a unified whole. Universal themes: A text can be said to have integrity if it contains ideas or themes that are relevant to humans from across time and different communities. Critical engagement: A text can demonstrate textual integrity by generating critical discussion. If people debate the meaning or ideas in a text, this suggests that it has an ongoing significance for audiences.

English (Advanced) HSC Glossary

Significant texts: A significant text is one that holds importance for audiences in a particular context, either as an example of aesthetics or because it contains powerful ideas. Close analysis of the text’s construction, content and language to develop students’ own rich interpretation of the text. Notions of context with regard to the text’s composition and reception. Eliot’s “objective correlative”: Eliot writes, “The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an objective correlative in other words a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion.” Mise-en-scene: the setting or surroundings of an event, i.e. the city Vers libre: free verse Flâneur: a man who saunters around observing society. Denizens: a person, animal, or plant that lives or is found in a particular place. Poete maudit: a poet living a life outside or against society. Demimonde: a group of people on the fringes of respectable society. Conduit: a channel. Fin de siècle: The end of the nineteenth century; the phrase is French for “end of the century.” Fin de siècle is particularly used to describe the period's self-conscious artistic movements and a sophisticated despair that became popular at the time.

D. Module C: Craft of Writing Logos: Using logic or reason to convince the audience that the ideas are true because they make logical sense. Pathos: Invoking sympathy, anger, pity etc. from an audience, or manipulating an audience’s emotions. Ethos: Selling an idea on the basis that the author is credible, trustworthy, an authority, unbiased, and/or an expert. Kairos: The timeliness of an argument in aiming for the best opportunity to convince an audience. Telos: What is the purpose behind the writing? What is the goal for the author, what do they hope to achieve? Topos: The choice of topic as a contributing factor to convincing the audience. Judicious selection of evidence can make ideas more understandable....