Weeks 1 & 2
The categorisation of distinctive features, forms, content, techniques, audiences and purposes.
What is genre / genre conventions?
An event in the narrative that has been written to paint a picture in the reader's mind.
What is a 'Scene'?
This connects events by time and cause, that is, they organise the sequence of events based on their relationship in time, as cause and effect
What is Narrative?
The foundational idea, genre, and overview of the narrative structure.
What is a 'Premise'?
The practice and process where one group seeks to control the lands, economic, political, cultural and/or social life of another group.
What is Colonialism?
Where people draw rough maps of places they have lived in, can be useful adjuncts to researching and thinking about place.
Memory Maps
Visually descriptive or figurative language.
What is 'Imagery'?
The figure who tells the events in the story.
What is the narrator?
A character that usually represents a type, such as the hero or the villain, and is distinguished by one or two key traits.
What is a flat character?
The increased amount of global ..... poses new questions about the meanings and roles of “ancestral home”
Migration
The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
What does it mean to conduct research?
Research is not needed for fiction as much as it is needed for non-fiction.
False. Research is crucial to both fiction and non-fiction literature.
What is the Major Dramatic Question for Charlottes Web?
"Will Charlotte be able to save Wilburs life?"
In what type of literature is the protagonist and the narrator the same person.
This is a memoir.
‘dominance by consent’
What does the term 'hegemony' mean?
Writing that is based on fact but draws on the techniques of fiction writing.
What is 'literary non-fiction' or 'creative non-fiction'?
The fire flames lapped and licked the wood around it, devouring it as fast as a lion on its prey.
This is an example of Personification and a similie.
Tension is when the writer writes the story in first, second or third person.
False. This is tense, not tension.
repeated images or objects associated with the character suggested habitual likes, dislikes and symbolic qualities.
What is a motif?
"Indeed, post-colonial writing often features .... and......".
place and displacement
In Songlines, this term refers to a complex kinship system.
'moiety'
A sensory system located in the inner ear that plays a crucial role in maintaining balance, spatial orientation, and coordinating movement
The Vestibular System
How a writer selects and arrange the plots
What is 'Emplotment'?
ironic, sarcastic, humorous, serious, melodramatic, melancholic, tragic...what are these?
Examples of Tone.
Those who dominant discourses might label as marginal, deviant or non-normative
What is the ‘subaltern’?