Texts and Human Experiences
Rosemary Dobson's Summer's End invokes this mythological being to represent being trapped in the liminal space between two worlds.
What is a mermaid?
This character's mother was known as Sycorax, and she was banished to the magical island of Algiers.
Who is Caliban?
Dylan Thomas' famous Llareggub is widely believed to be a parody of this quaint seaside village wherein Thomas whittled away many hours in the local pub.
What is Laugharne?
This famous poet captured all the high aesthetics of Arthurian epic verse with this Module C text that centres around a noblewoman named Shallott being elevated with her art far from the kingdom of Camelot.
Who is Alfred Lord Tennyson?
This simple and often overlooked five-letter essay word specifically refers to the unique ways in which a composer might employ language.
What is Style?
The Merchant of Venice famously centres around Jewish character Shylock's desire to take what from the titular character Antonio?
What is a pound of flesh?
This Module A pairing of a drama and poetry centres around Early Modern concepts of Death, Mortality, God and Redemption, with the focal texts including 'Death Be Not Proud'
Charles Dickens was born in this early 19th Century year, firmly placing him and his body of work in the late Victorian period.
What is 1812?
Who is Peter Mendelssohn?
Specifically talking about how a text is structured, including the adherence to certain conventions like chapters, acts, or scenes, refers to this English concept.
What is Form?
The rubric asks students to consider the uncommon human experiences, e.g. the <BLANK>, <BLANK> and <BLANK> of human behaviour.
What are anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies?
What is Looking for Richard?
This super important Mod B phrase refers to 'The unity of a text; its coherent use of form and language to produce an integrated whole in terms of meaning and value'.
What is textual integrity?
Gwen Harwood's dual poem Father and Child comprises two different time periods in the poet's life, compared with one another. This type of poem is often referred to as this style of dual modernist painting.
What is a diptych?
This ancient 'back and forth' style of dialogue originated in Greek drama, usually between a 'protagonist' and 'antagonist' discussing a dilemma.
What is Stichomythia?
This favourite Fort St word can often be used as a way of exploring the concept of the 'every day', and often the 'mundane'.
What is quotidian?
The 2019 Module A HSC question cryptically posed that texts nowadays are constantly being dismantled, reconstructed and this helpful household process.
What is recycled?
Being able to include elements of your own voice alongside deep understanding of text crafts this three word Module B writing skill.
What is Considered Personal Voice?
This pointedly funny speech excerpt talks about the importance of reflecting on one's writing and appreciating it as a reader by telling a funny anecdote about reading one's own novel on a plane.
What is That Crafty Feeling?
This formal English device refers to a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, especially in reference to fictional narrative.
What is Peripeteia?
This 2014 novel on the Texts and Human Experiences prescribed text lists centres around a blind French girl and a young, radio obsessed German soldier.
What is All the Light We Cannot See?
These three English literary devices are highlighted and given specific mention in the Mod A Rubric.
What are motif, allusion and intertextuality?
In Dylan Thomas' famous Module B radio play Under Milk Wood, what is the name of the local pub?
What is the Sailor's Arms?
The only 'performance poet' on the Mod C list, this Sydney-based rapper from the UK recently switched to they/them pronouns and changed their name from Kate Tempest to this?
Who is Kae Tempest?
This English technique refers to a writer raising a question, and then immediately providing an answer to that question.
What is hypophora?