9ENG - junior exam Flashcards
Theme
A ‘big idea’ and/or underlying message of a text.
When knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved, and transmitted by word of mouth from one generation to another.
Oral tradition
Aetiology
The cause or reason for a thing. As a story it explains why things are the way that they are.
The brave, honourable, and courteous character attributed to the ideal knight.
Chivalry
Māui
A cultural hero and trickster, famous for his exploits and cleverness.
A main character in a story whose special abilities, characteristics and achievements make him/her appear noble and ideal.
Hero/Heroine
Soliloquy
An extended speech made while a character is alone or unheard on stage, often representing the inner thoughts of a character voiced aloud for the benefit of the audience.
When a play is organised into five main acts, which are structured to show the rising and falling tensions in the play, as well as the climax.
5 - Act Structure
Comedy
With reference to Shakespeare’s plays, this is a genre of narrative identifiable by commonalities in character and narrative structure often including deception, misunderstanding, mistaken identity and, ultimately, resolution through marriage.
A round, open-air theatre in which Shakespeare’s plays were performed.
The Globe Theatre
Protagonist
The central or leading character in a narrative.
The process through which a character’s personality, attitude and/or behaviour changes over the course of a narrative.
Character Development
Hero’s Journey
An extremely common story structure that involves a protagonist who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed.
The world of a hero before the journey begins, allowing us to identify with and understand the hero and giving us something to compare/contrast with once the journey begins.
Ordinary World
The Extraordinary World
A world that contrasts with the hero’s Ordinary World in terms of its physical characteristics, its rules, its inhabitants and/or its dangers (literal or figurative).
