In this module, students explore how texts may give insight into _______, __________ and ___________ ...?
anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies
What crime was Arthur Miller charged with because of the Red Scare?
Contempt of Court
Beginning “in the middle of things”, this technique propels the plot into the action, quickening the pace and getting rid of unnecessary detail or exposition.
In media res
The married couple in the film.
Who are Joe and Shirley Wershba?
The three text forms you are likely to be asked to write in.
What are discursives, persuasives and imaginatives?
We dance
In the light of our neon salvation.
Blood, sweat, tears; gone.
Now on sale, our new dawn.
Cutta Dundon!
I am strong, I am resilient, I am no quitter.
Mikayla McDonnell
Explosive consonant sounds made by the rapid release of air – “p”, “b” “d” “k” “ch” “g”
Plosives
Arthur Miller speaks to his actors and audience directly in his script through this.
What is Authorial Intrusion?
Atwood shapes the character of Miranda into these characters in Hag-Seed.
Who is Anne-Marie and Miranda?
Milo Radulovich's interview is an example of this.
What is archival footage?
The composer of 'Spotty Handed Villainesses'
Who is Margaret Atwood?
The sun flickers as steel water vapour rumbles through the air and the distance is painted by long dull brush strokes covering the blue.
Sarah Bauer!
From a madhouse to a free man, I was out with the rats and their human equivalents.
Cutta
When a word or name is used in place of something it’s closely related to. It substitutes the bigger thing and is often used for poetic effect.
Metonymy
A story that is used to metaphorically represent concerns about another time or place.
What is an allegory?
The program that inspired the writing of Hag-Seed.
What is the Hogarth Shakespeare Project?
Dianne Reeve's diegetic soundtrack when the Radulovich case is questioned on See It Now.
What is "I've Got My Eyes On You"?
The unstructured, organic internal dialogue of the narrator used by Colum McCann.
What is stream-of-consciousness?
Flowing in the wind, a spark of energy, a sheep charges.
Jasmine Burke!
Injuries are so common in my line of work
Jasmine!
The actions of individuals that reveal emotions and motivations.
What are behaviours?
The character that undergoes a crisis of belief that forces them to leave Salem.
Who is Reverend Hale?
The lens through which we view Atwood's changed treatment of First Nations People.
What is post-colonialism?
The relentless bullying by this person in the media demonstrates the personal cost of the McCarthy era.
Who is O'Brien?
An answered rhetorical question.
What is hypophora?
They only see the triumphant successes blooming through my body.
Mikayla McDonnell!
We are,
prosperity drivers,
building an empire,
fueled by desire.
Sarah Bauer
Extroverted, optimistic, creative, melancholic are all adjectives to describe this.
What are human qualities?
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and _________________ writes the law!
What is "common vengeance"?
"...I’ll break my staff / Bury it certain fathoms in the earth And deeper than did ever plummet sound ________________________"
What is "I'll drown my book?"
"At the end of this discourse, a few people may accuse this reporter of _____________________ "
What is "fouling his own comfortable nest"?
Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, suggested that any spoken or written communication intended to persuade contains three key rhetorical elements:
Pathos, Logos, Ethos
The outlines of furniture are blurred through the stifling expanse of shadow in my bedroom.
Alison Kleinschmidt!
The possessive pronoun ‘mine’ conveys Caliban’s sense of stewardship over the isle as a native inhabitant, which contrasted with the accusatory verb ‘tak’st’ highlights the power imbalance between Caliban and Prospero, reflecting the colonised and the coloniser, whose “art is of such power”.
Alison Kleinschmidt
Name 5 visual techniques used in this image and adequately explain their impact:
In what year is The Crucible set, and in what year was it first published and performed?
1962 and 1953, respectively.
Which historical shipwreck was The Tempest inspired by? *Double points if you can pinpoint the date it sunk.*
Who is the actor who plays Edward R. Murrow?
David Strathairn
When a text imitates a certain style of text to satirise it. It will often employ exaggeration to make obvious the characteristics it wishes to unpick. Often humorous.
Parody
Winds whistle loudly above and below waist height
Jasmine Burke!
Shakespeare suggests that it is Lear’s semblance of sanity that maintains his blindness, as clarity only comes to the king in an ironic manner after finding insanity. The total dissolution of Lear’s mind begins in the climactic storm of Act 3 as the natural phenomenon reflects and exacerbates Lear’s negative emotions.
Cutta Dundon!