Common Module
This module requires students to explore texts that represent whose experiences?
Human experiences
In which town is 'The Crucible' set?
Salem, Massachusetts.
Module A asks students to study the relationship between two texts. What is this relationship called?
A textual conversation
Which real-life journalist is the central figure in 'Good Night, and Good Luck?'
Edward R.Murrow
This technique involves a sudden break in narrative order to recount an earlier event, providing background or context.
Flashback/Analepsis
According to the rubric, texts allow responders to reflect on the qualities of human experiences, including the ______ and the ________.
the anomalies and the paradoxes/inconsistencies.
Which character is motivated by jealousy and a desire for power, leading to false accusations of witchcraft?
Abigail Williams
True or False: Module A focuses only on the similarities between two texts.
False - it focuses on both similarities and differences
Module B asks students to study a text closely to understand how its form, style and language create meaning. What cinematic technique is used in the film to reinforce its historical context?
Black and white cinematography
When a text makes a direct or indirect reference to another text, historical event, or cultural idea, it's using what technique?
Allusion
The rubric emphasises that texts invite us to consider both individual and______ human experiences.
collective
One of the rubric's key ideas is that texts explore both individual and collective human experiences. How does Salem witch trial hysteria show a collective human experience?
It shows how fear, suspicion, and mass hysteria can spread through an entire community.
According to the rubric, studying paired texts helps us understand how composers explore what aspect of their contexts?
Their values, perspectives, and concerns.
The film highlights Murrow's belief in the role of journalism in society. Which line from is speech sums up this belief?
'This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends.'
Synecdoche
True or False: The rubric states that texts not only affirm but also challenge assumptions and beliefs about human experiences.
True
John Proctor's moral struggle represents which aspect of human experience emphasised in the rubric?
The tension between integrity and self-preservation/the paradoxes of human experiences.
While comparing two texts, students consider how meaning is shaped by both the original context and the later context. What is the term for this shift in meaning across time?
Reimagining or reframing
How does the film reflect the tensions between individual and collective human experiences,(a concepts also linked to the Common Module).
Murrow's personal integrity contrasts with the collective fear and conformity during the McCarthy era.
This technique presents contradictory or opposing ideas that reveal a deeper truth, for example, 'less is more.'
Paradox
The rubric highlights that composers use language forms, features and structures to shape and communicate representations of human experiences. What is the key term used in the rubric to describe this act of shaping?
Representation
The play was written during the 195-s, at the height of McCarthyism in the USA. How does this historical context connect to the rubric's idea that texts can affirm or challenge assumptions about human experiences?
The Crucible challenges assumptions by showing how fear and ideology can corrupt justice, reflecting both 1690s Salem and 1950s America.
The rubric highlights that composers may use intertextuality. What does this term mean in the context of Module:A?
The ways texts echo, reference, or reshape each other to create new meanings in conversation.
Module B emphasises evaluating a text's enduring value. How does 'Good Night and Good Luck,' remain relevant to contemporary audiences beyond its historical setting?
It critiques media responsibility, freedom of speech, and the dangers of fear-driven politics, issues that remain urgent today.
This technique deliberately uses understatement for effect, often for irony or humour.
Litotes