Literary terms
Literary terms
Australia
Non-fiction analysis
Grammar
100
The people that inhabit the fictional world.
What are characters
100
An important moral, social, or political idea which a text is trying to communicate
What is message?
100
When did Australia become independent?
What is 1901?
100
The figure with five corners used in rhetorical analysis.
What is a pentagon?
100
In English you always have the subject before the verb. This has a special term in Danish.
What is "ligefrem ordstilling"?
200
A narration which starts in the middle of a scene or a situation without an introduction.
What is in media res?
200
The voice which tells the story and may be either directly or indirectly involved in it.
What is narrator?
200
Between 1909 and 1969 children who were "not of full blood" were taken from their families.
What is the stolen generation?
200
The situation under which a text or a speech is written.
What is circumstances?
200
In English some nouns are irregular. This has a special term in Danish.
What is "uregelmæssige navneord"
300
Implications and associations that a word carries or suggests in addition to its literal meaning, as opposed to denotation.
What is connotations?
300
A particular type of style of literature. The most common fictional ones are the novel, the short story, poetry, and drama. Some common non-ficitional ones are essay, the article, and biography.
What is genre?
300
The US and Australia are both immigration nations. The first people who went to the USA from Europe were pilgrims. What were the first people who went to Australia?
What is convicts?
300
Forms of appeal in rhetorical analysis
What is logos, pathos and ethos?
300
In the present tense in English, you must make sure that the verb and the subject match. In Danish this has a special term.
What is "kongruens" or "overensstemmelse"?
400
An imaginative comparison where one thing is described in terms of another without the use of words such as like or as,
What is a metaphor?
400
A figure of speech which involves play on words. It occurs when the same word or sound refers to different words or meanings. Most often used for comic effect, e.g. he checked his cash, cashed in his checks
What is pun?
400
Soon after Australia became independent, policies were introduced to create an Australia consisting only of white people.
What is White Australian Policy?
400
List the five corners of the pentagon, i.e. what aspects you look at to do your non-fiction/rhetorical analysis.
What is writer, reader, topic, language and circumstances
400
In English you do not only have to have subject-verb concord (overensstemmelse mellem subjekt og verbum), you must also have concord between other words in a sentence.
What is "logisk flertal"?
500
A narrator who knows all about the characters, their thoughts, and the events taking place.
What is omniscient narrator?
500
The way in which the personality and physical appearance of the characters are presented in a piece of fiction.
What is characterization?
500
The author of "The Men Who Made Australia".
What is Henry Lawson?
500
When you analyze a non-fiction text, your goal is to determine to what extent the text meets its intention. Basically a text can try to one of three things.
What is inform, pursuade or entertain (delight)? The extended version is: inform, provoke, pursuade, explain, entertain, manipulate or...
500
In English some verbs must have both an object and an indirect object. This is true for a very common verb.
What is "to tell"?
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