Terminology
Lionel Fogarty
Context
Protest Poetry
The HSC
100

This poetic device involves the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

What is "Anaphora"?

100

He is an Indigenous Australian poet who focuses on the experiences and struggles of his community.

Who is Lionel Fogarty?

100

This term refers to factors acting upon composers and responders that impinge on meaning.

What is "Context"?

100

This term refers to the use of vivid or shocking scenes displayed visually or described in words to create a strong reaction.

What is "Sensationalism"?

100

In the HSC English exam, students are often asked to do this to a text, which involves identifying components and the relationship between them.

What is "analyse"?

200

This figure of speech involves a part of something representing the whole or vice versa.

What is "Synecdoche"?

200

This is the term for the specific cultural background to which Lionel Fogarty belongs.

What is "Indigenous Australian"?

200

According to the conceptual framework, context creates this kind of relationship between responder, text, and composer.

What is a dynamic relationship?

200

This is the primary medium through which protest poetry gains its power.

What is "Language"?

200

This term refers to the specific guidelines that dictate what is to be studied in the HSC English course.

What is the "syllabus"?

300

This term refers to the emotional or cultural association with a word, beyond its dictionary definition.

What is "Connotation"?

300

Lionel Fogarty's work is often categorised under this type of poetry.

What is "Protest Poetry"?

300

This is what context does to values and attitudes over time and cultures.

What is "Change"?

300

This term refers to the specific audience that protest poetry often aims to reach.

What is "The Public"?

300

These are the four text types that students may be asked to write in the HSC English exam.

What are "reflective, discursive, persuasive, and imaginative"?

400

This figure of speech combines contradictory terms.

What is "Oxymoron"?

400

Lionel Fogarty's poetry often addresses this overarching theme.

What is "Social Justice"?

400

This term refers to the way in which the meaning of a text is shaped by its reception in different contexts.

What is "Interpretive Independence"?

400

This term refers to the emotional impact that protest poetry aims to have on its audience.

What is "Emotional Resonance"?

400

This type of question often appears in the HSC English exam and requires students to evaluate the role of context in shaping their understanding of a text.

What is a "contextual analysis" question?

500

This literary device involves a direct comparison between two unlike things.

What is "Metaphor"?

500

This is the primary reason Lionel Fogarty writes poetry.

What is to identify his relationship to atrocities and injustice?

500

This term refers to the impossibility of a complete understanding of the effect of context on a text.

What is "impossible to escape"?

500

This term refers to the emotional impact that protest poetry aims to have on its audience.

What is "Catharsis"?

500

Students must discuss these choices of the composer to assess the ways that meaning is shaped and conveyed in the text.

What are "language choices"?