Human Experiences
The Party's three slogans are "War is Peace," "Freedom is Slavery," and this third one about knowledge.
What is "Ignorance is Strength"?
This is the famous opening line of the play, marking the shift from war to peace under Edward IV.
What is "Now is the winter of our discontent"?
This 1915 poem opens: "Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky."
What is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
The term for the external idea presented within the examination of Paper 2 of Module C.
What is the stimulus?
This literary term describes a recurring image, symbol, or idea that reinforces a text's central meaning.
What is a motif?
This ministry, where Winston works, is responsible for falsifying historical records.
What is the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue)?
Clarence's dream, full of drowning and visions of hell, dramatises this era's belief in a divinely ordered universe.
What is Elizabethan/Tudor providentialism?
Prufrock says he has "measured out my life" with these small objects, symbolising his mundane existence.
What are coffee spoons?
Smith divides novelists into two working types: micro-managers, who perfect each sentence before moving on, and this contrasting type.
What are macro-planners?
This term refers to the historical, social, and cultural circumstances in which a text is composed, shaping its concerns.
What is context (composer's context)?
This term describes the Party's technique of holding two contradictory beliefs at once and accepting both as true.
What is doublethink?
The name of the form that Pacino uses to intercut scholarly and street interviews with rehearsal footage, blurring documentary and drama.
What is a hybrid documentary/docudrama form?
This poem has the lines: " Here the stone images / Are raised, here they receive / The supplication of a dead man's hand"
What is "The Hollow Men"?
A distinctive feature of Smith's discursive lecture, especially one in which she self-deprecates.
What is a sympathetic/authentic voice?
This narrative device presents events out of chronological order, often to build tension or reveal character through memory.
What is non-linear/achronological structure?
Where Winston buys a diary, and later a glass paperweight, from. A space he wrongly believes is free of surveillance.
What is Mr Charrington's shop?
The supposed aim of Pacino's film where he is aiming to "communicate" something about how we think and feel today.
What is "A Shakespeare"?
In "Journey of the Magi," the nativity is described as this paradoxical universal experience.
What is birth and death (birth and death conflated)?
Smith and McCann both treat writing as a process where meaning emerges through drafting itself, rather than pure execution of a plan — what is this idea called?
What is metafiction (metafictive narration)?
The Common Module rubric states texts give insight into the "anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies" of this.
What is human behaviour and motivation?
Winston writes "If there is hope, it lies in the ______," naming the social group he pins his fragile faith on.
What are the proles (proletariat)?
Margaret's curses draw on this dramatic tradition, in which a wronged figure is calling for prophetic downfall, or demanding vengeance to articulate moral order.
What is Senecan revenge tragedy?
Eliot's trajectory across "Prufrock," "The Hollow Men," and "Journey of the Magi" moves from paralysis toward this tentative resolution.
What is Christian faith/redemption?
McCann's story moves through liminal settings — in Bakhtinian theory, this is the name for such liminal spaces.
What is the chronotope?
This specific Module B rubric term evaluates how a text's language and ideas sustain meaning and provoke ongoing interest.
What is textual integrity?