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English ATAR glos.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| aesthetic | a sense of beauty or an appreciation of artistic expression |
| analyse | consider in detail for the purpose of finding meaning or relationships |
| appreciation | the act of showing quality and value of literary texts |
| audience | a group of readers, listeners, or viewers that the writer is addressing |
| author | the composer or originator of a work |
| attitudes | an attitude or specific feeling about something |
| context | the environment of which a text is responded to or created, generally a big influence |
| convention | an accepted practice that has developed over time and is generally used and understood |
| digital technologies | the use of technology to effectively find, analyse, create, communicate, and use information |
| digital texts | audio, visual and multimodal texts produced through digital or electronic technology |
| evaluate | evaluation of an issue or information that includes considering important factors and available evidence in making judgement that can be justified |
| figurative language | word groups or phrases used in a way that differs from the expected or everyday usage - metaphors, similes, personification |
| forms of text | the shape and structure of texts |
| genre | the categories of which texts are grouped |
| hybrid texts | composite texts resulting from mixing elements from different sources or genres |
| ideas | this word has an open meaning and an be interpreted as understandings, values, attitudes, thoughts, opinions, ect. |
| idiom | a group of fixed words having a meaning not usual to the individual words - i am over the moon - your on thin ice |
| issue | matters of public or private concern that are in dispute |
| language patterns | the arrangement of identifiable repeated or corresponding elements in a text - repetition, similarity |
| literary texts | refers to the past and present texts across a range of cultural contexts that are valued for their form and style |
| media texts | spoken, print, graphic and/or electronic communications with a public audience |
| medium | the means or channel of communication - spoken, written, graphic, ect |
| language | used to discuss film or literary study such as symbolism, characterisation |
| mode | the various processes of communication - listening, speaking, reading, ect |
| mood | the atmosphere or feeling of a particular text |
| multimodal text | combination of two or more communication modes |
| narrative | a story of events or experiences, real or imaginary |
| narrative point of view | the ways in which a narrator may be related to the story |
| personification | the description of an inanimate object as though it was a person or a living thing |
| perspective | a position from which things may be viewed or considered |
| point of view | the opinion or viewpoint expressed by an individual in a text |
| prose | ordinary language used in speaking or writing without metrical structure |
| reading | the process of making. meaning out of a text |
| readings | interpretations of text - dominant, alternative |
| representation | the way people, events, issues, or subjects are presented in a text |
| rhetoric | the language of arguments, using persuasive and forceful language |
| rhetorical devices | rhetoric questions, repetition, propositions, figurative language |
| short answer response | well developed paragraph(s) in standard australian english that are roughly 200-300 words |
| standard australian english (SAE) | the type of english used when in a formal setting |
| stylistic choices | the selection of features to achieve a certain effect |
| stylistic features | the way that a text is arranged to affect the meaning |
| synthesise | combine elements into a coherent whole |
| text structure |
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Mjbenns07