Reading to Write
This Australian-Greek spoken-word artist wrote spoken-word poems to inspire young writers to harness the power of poetry.
Luka Lesson
In Shakespeare’s King Lear, this youngest daughter is banished in Act 1 for refusing to flatter her father during his superficial "love test."
Cordelia
Mary Shelley's novel uses a frame narrative structure, opening and closing with letters written by this Arctic explorer to his sister.
Walton
An intentional pause or break near the middle of a poetic line, created using punctuation like dashes, periods, or semicolons, used to shift tone or force a dramatic beat.
Caesura
What are the Focus Area Names:
Texts and Human Experiences
Textual Conversations
Critical Study of Literature
The Craft of Writing
Defined in the Stage 6 syllabus as elements that evoke an emotional, sensory, or artistic response, these qualities (such as tone, rhythm, and evocative imagery) give a text its artistic beauty and style
Aesthetic Qualities
In her 2019 film adaptation of Little Women, director Greta Gerwig structures the film non-linearly, constantly juxtaposing adult reality with memories from childhood. What technique does she use to show this
Cool tones for present, warm tones for memory of childhood
Shelley subtitled her novel ... after this figure from Greek mythology who was punished for stealing fire from the gods.
The Modern Prometheus
The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences, often used to build cadence and emotional momentum in spoken word and persuasive speeches.
Anaphora
How many essays will you write in your HSC exams?
3 essays
1 short answer
1 imaginative/discursive/persuasive/reflection
Spoken word poets like Luka Lesson frequently rely on this structural technique (where a poetic line breaks without punctuation at the end—to drive vocal momentum and dynamic rhythm)
Enjambment
The narrator in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper is prescribed this controversial, patriarchal medical treatment by her husband John.
Rest cure
Victor Frankenstein's scientific experiments reflect 18th-century anxieties surrounding this real-world scientific practice, which used electric currents to stimulate muscle movement in corpses.
Galvanism
A rhetorical device where a speaker or writer poses a question and then immediately answers it themselves to direct the audience's focus or control the narrative flow.
Hypophora
How long is each HSC paper
Paper 1 - 1.5 hours 10 mins reading
Paper 2 - 2 hours 5 mins reading
In her collection Returning, Kirli Saunders uses this poetic form: where the physical layout, line breaks, and spatial distribution of words on the page visually shape the subject matter, such as flowing rivers or ancestral lines; to bridge visual art and text.
concrete poetry (or visual poetry)
In her poetic collection The World’s Wife, Carol Ann Duffy gives voice to these traditionally silenced or marginalised historical and mythological figures.
female counterparts / wives of famous men
Frankenstein contrasts the cold rationalism of the Enlightenment with this artistic and philosophical movement's emphasis on emotional depth and the awe-inspiring power of nature.
Romanticism
A dramatic micro-technique where a speaker directly addresses an absent person, an abstract concept (like Death or Love), or an inanimate object as if it were present and capable of responding.
Apostrophe
In NSW, while an ATAR is calculated using a student's top 10 units, this is both the mandatory minimum number of English units that MUST count toward your aggregate and the absolute maximum number of English units that CAN count if taking Extension courses.
2 units (minimum) and 4 units (maximum)
In the Year 11 'Reading to Write' module, students create an imaginative or discursive piece accompanied by this analytical text that explains their stylistic choices and borrowings from model texts.
Reflection Statement
When King Lear cries that he is "a man / More sinned against than sinning," he is struggling with this fatal flaw of excessive pride before reaching true self-awareness.
Hubris
Complete the Creature's ultimatum to Victor: "I will glut the maw of death, until it be satisfied with the blood of your remaining friends... I shall be with you..."
"...on your wedding night"
A figure of speech where a specific part of an entity is used to represent the entire whole—such as referring to a vehicle as a set of "wheels" or workers as "hired hands."
Synecdoche
According to HSC student research by Art of Smart, Band 6 achievers avoid burnout during term time by averaging this many of practice papers per week (during Term Time/non-exam blocks)
0.5 to 1 section (or half a paper) every week.