Text and Human Experiences
The Crucible
Textual Conversations
Good Night, and Good Luck
Craft of Writing
Who wrote this?
Who wrote this #2?
100
In this module, students explore how texts may give insight into _______, __________ and ___________ ...?
anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies
100
What crime was Arthur Miller charged with because of the Red Scare?
Contempt of Court
100
Beginning “in the middle of things”, this technique propels the plot into the action, quickening the pace and getting rid of unnecessary detail or exposition.
In media res
100
The married couple in the film.
Who are Joe and Shirley Wershba?
100
The three text forms you are likely to be asked to write in.
What are discursives, persuasives and imaginatives?
100
We dance
In the light of our neon salvation.
Blood, sweat, tears; gone.
Now on sale, our new dawn.
Cutta Dundon!
100
I am strong, I am resilient, I am no quitter.
Mikayla McDonnell
200
Explosive consonant sounds made by the rapid release of air – “p”, “b” “d” “k” “ch” “g”
Plosives
200
Arthur Miller speaks to his actors and audience directly in his script through this.
What is Authorial Intrusion?
200
Atwood shapes the character of Miranda into these characters in Hag-Seed.
Who is Anne-Marie and Miranda?
200
Milo Radulovich's interview is an example of this.
What is archival footage?
200
The composer of 'Spotty Handed Villainesses'
Who is Margaret Atwood?
200
The sun flickers as steel water vapour rumbles through the air and the distance is painted by long dull brush strokes covering the blue.
Sarah Bauer!
200
From a madhouse to a free man, I was out with the rats and their human equivalents.
Cutta
300
When a word or name is used in place of something it’s closely related to. It substitutes the bigger thing and is often used for poetic effect.
Metonymy
300
A story that is used to metaphorically represent concerns about another time or place.
What is an allegory?
300
The program that inspired the writing of Hag-Seed.
What is the Hogarth Shakespeare Project?
300
Dianne Reeve's diegetic soundtrack when the Radulovich case is questioned on See It Now.
What is "I've Got My Eyes On You"?
300
The unstructured, organic internal dialogue of the narrator used by Colum McCann.
What is stream-of-consciousness?
300
Flowing in the wind, a spark of energy, a sheep charges.
Jasmine Burke!
300
Injuries are so common in my line of work
Jasmine!
400
The actions of individuals that reveal emotions and motivations.
What are behaviours?
400
The character that undergoes a crisis of belief that forces them to leave Salem.
Who is Reverend Hale?
400
The lens through which we view Atwood's changed treatment of First Nations People.
What is post-colonialism?
400
The relentless bullying by this person in the media demonstrates the personal cost of the McCarthy era.
Who is O'Brien?
400
An answered rhetorical question.
What is hypophora?
400
They only see the triumphant successes blooming through my body.
Mikayla McDonnell!
400
We are,
prosperity drivers,
building an empire,
fueled by desire.
Sarah Bauer
500
Extroverted, optimistic, creative, melancholic are all adjectives to describe this.
What are human qualities?
500
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and _________________ writes the law!
What is "common vengeance"?
500
"...I’ll break my staff / Bury it certain fathoms in the earth And deeper than did ever plummet sound ________________________"
What is "I'll drown my book?"
500
"At the end of this discourse, a few people may accuse this reporter of _____________________ "
What is "fouling his own comfortable nest"?
500
Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, suggested that any spoken or written communication intended to persuade contains three key rhetorical elements:
Pathos, Logos, Ethos
500
The outlines of furniture are blurred through the stifling expanse of shadow in my bedroom.
Alison Kleinschmidt!
500
The possessive pronoun ‘mine’ conveys Caliban’s sense of stewardship over the isle as a native inhabitant, which contrasted with the accusatory verb ‘tak’st’ highlights the power imbalance between Caliban and Prospero, reflecting the colonised and the coloniser, whose “art is of such power”.
Alison Kleinschmidt
600
Name 5 visual techniques used in this image and adequately explain their impact:
E.g. colour, symbolism, style, salience, vectors.. etc.
600
In what year is The Crucible set, and in what year was it first published and performed?
1962 and 1953, respectively.
600
Which historical shipwreck was The Tempest inspired by? *Double points if you can pinpoint the date it sunk.*
The 'Sea Venture' sunk in 1609, on its way to Virgina to provide supplies to the English settlers there.
600
Who is the actor who plays Edward R. Murrow?
David Strathairn
600
When a text imitates a certain style of text to satirise it. It will often employ exaggeration to make obvious the characteristics it wishes to unpick. Often humorous.
Parody
600
Winds whistle loudly above and below waist height
Jasmine Burke!
600
Shakespeare suggests that it is Lear’s semblance of sanity that maintains his blindness, as clarity only comes to the king in an ironic manner after finding insanity. The total dissolution of Lear’s mind begins in the climactic storm of Act 3 as the natural phenomenon reflects and exacerbates Lear’s negative emotions.
Cutta Dundon!