Common Module: Texts & Human Experiences
A statement, character, or situation that seems self-contradictory, but reveals a deeper truth about human experience.
Paradox
In 'The Drover's Wife', the main character spends the night sitting at the table with a club to protect her children from this creature.
Snake.
He is the creator and executive producer of The Truman Show who controls Seahaven from the lunar control room.
Christof
This writing style explores an idea, issue, or personal thought from multiple angles without trying to aggressively win an argument.
Discursive
This literary device directly compares two different things using the words "like" or "as".
In Kenneth Slessor's poem 'William Street', the speaker repeats this five-word refrain to challenge the reader's view of the city: "You find it ugly, I find it..."
Lawson uses informal Australian vocabulary and regional speech—known by this term—to create an authentic bush identity.
Colloquial language OR idiom.
Peter Weir frequently uses this camera angle when filming Christof to emphasise his absolute authority over Truman's world.
Low-angle shot
Character development, setting, tension, and narrative arc are the key structural features of this text type.
Imaginative
The opening sentence of an essay body paragraph that clearly states the main argument of that paragraph is called this.
Point sentence
In Slessor's poem 'Gulliver', the speaker feels bound by hundreds of tiny everyday annoyances, comparing his physical body to this type of structure.
Prison
Lawson uses a dark, detached tone in 'The Union Buries Its Dead' during this ceremony to challenge idealised notions of mateship.
Funeral
Name of the sailboat Truman uses to escape across the artificial ocean, named after Christopher Columbus's flagship.
Santa Maria
Rhetorical questions, emotive language, and call-to-action statements are core elements in this text type.
Persuasive
Placing two contrasting images, characters, or ideas side-by-side in a text to highlight their differences is known as this device.
Juxtaposition
According to the NESA Common Module rubric, texts represent human emotions and these three specific behavioral patterns.
Anomalies, Paradoxes, and Inconsistencies
In Lawson's short story 'Shooting the Moon', this phrase refers to sneaking away from a camp or hotel at night without doing this action.
Paying the bill/rent
Peter Weir’s signature visual motifs reflect this critical film theory, which asserts that a director is the primary author and artist of a film.
Auteur Theory
In a Module C reflection statement, students must explicitly explain how they borrowed and adapted specific language devices directly from these set pieces of literature.
Mentor Texts - The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury, Dear Mrs. Dunkley by Helen Garner, How To Live Before You Die by Steve Jobs
In poetry, when a sentence or thought runs over from one line to the next without terminal punctuation, it is called this.
Enjambment
In 'Beach Burial', Slessor highlights the tragic loss of identity in war through the phrase written in pencil on temporary wooden crosses.
'Unknown Seamen'
Module A focuses on how language can reinforce or challenge these oversimplified cultural assumptions held about a particular group of people.
Stereotypes
Module B requires students to assess a text's "enduring value", which stems from this two-word concept describing how a text's form, structure, and meaning work together as a unified whole.
Textual Integrity
The reflection statement requires students to unpack this self-directed editing phase, explaining how their deliberate language choices were developed and refined to suit a specific purpose and audience.
Drafting and Composition
Located in the essay introduction, this single statement directly answers the HSC prompt and outlines the overarching argument of the essay.
Thesis