1984
Winston commits his first obvious act of rebellion by writing in one of these.
What is a diary?
Shakespeare's Richard frequently uses this dramatic convention to speak directly to the audience about his plans.
What is a soliloquy?
Malouf was born in 1934 in this Australian city, which would later influence much of his writing
What is Brisbane?
“The wind whispered angrily through the trees” gives human characteristics to the wind using this technique.
What is personification?
This Module C form can explore an idea from different perspectives without necessarily trying to convince its reader of one position.
What is discursive writing?
Winston works here, where inconvenient pieces of history regularly disappear down memory holes.
What is the Ministry of Truth?
Pacino uses these encounters with ordinary New Yorkers to investigate Shakespeare's accessibility in modern America.
What are the street interviews (vox pops)?
This tiny red-and-black creature becomes the unlikely centre of Malouf's meditation on childhood, memory and mortality.
What is a ladybird?
“We remember. We endure. We continue.” uses this repeated grammatical structure.
What is anaphora?
Returning to an image or idea from the opening at the end of a piece creates this type of structure.
What is cyclical structure?
This beautiful object containing a piece of coral represents Winston's desire to preserve a private connection with the past.
What is the glass paperweight?
Richard says he will “clothe” this in “odd old ends stolen out of holy writ.”
What is his “naked villainy”?
The state of existing at a threshold — between past and present, light and darkness, or one state of being and another — is known by this term.
What is liminality?
A narrator who repeatedly addresses the reader as “you” is using this grammatical point of view.
What is second person?
Describing a character's shaking hands rather than saying “he was afraid” demonstrates this familiar writing principle.
What is “show, don't tell”?
“Freedom is the freedom to say” this obvious statement.
What is “two plus two make four”?
Shakespeare's representation of Richard reflects this Tudor belief that legitimate kingship was sanctioned by God.
What is the Great Chain of Being / providential worldview?
Malouf frequently places images or clauses beside one another without explicitly stating their logical relationship, a technique known as this.
What is parataxis?
After a paragraph of flowing, complex sentences, the isolated sentence “He stopped.” creates emphasis through this structural change.
What is a syntactical shift?
An imaginative response that begins in medias res begins at this point in the narrative.
What is in the middle of the action?
Winston remembers this rhyme only in fragments until other characters gradually complete it: “Oranges and lemons, say the bells of…” this church.
What is St Clement's?
By showing Pacino simultaneously playing Richard and directing the actors playing Shakespeare, the film repeatedly draws attention to this idea: that identity, authority and even interpretation are constructed through performance.
What is metatheatricality?
This poem contains “the killing word we dare not speak”
What is Towards Midnight?
When the literal meaning of a text and its underlying implications pull in different directions, sophisticated readers recognise this gap between what is stated and what is meant.
What is irony?
In Colum McCann's What Time Is It Now, Where You Are?, the reader watches the unnamed writer invent, question and revise Sandi's story while simultaneously reading that story. This self-conscious form of storytelling is known by this term.
What is metafiction?