English Common Module - Revision

Question 1

Representation

Answer 1

Portrayal of subjective ideas.

Question 2

Viscerality

Answer 2

Feelings deep within that cannot be controlled/ignored - experienced emotionally.

Question 3

Fluidity

Answer 3

Flow with grace - water.

Question 4

Volatility

Answer 4

To change unpredictably for the worse.

Question 5

Elegy

Answer 5

A poem of serious reflection, usually to lament for the dead.

Question 6

Lament

Answer 6

Expression of grief and sorrow.

Question 7

Apolitical

Answer 7

Not involved with politics.

Question 8

Asocial

Answer 8

Not engaged in social interaction.

Question 9

Anonymity

Answer 9

To be anonymous.

Question 10

4 focuses of Slessors poems

Answer 10

Soundscape, Sensory Imagery, Concrete language and Form.

Question 11

Modernist Poet

Answer 11

Favours subjective experience to address our world, over the human experience and cliches.

Question 12

The moment

Answer 12

Transcends the waves of time for great personal reflection.

Question 13

Time

Answer 13

Constantly progressing us forwards.

Question 14

Structure of introduction

Answer 14

Thesis, follow up, context, link, context with thesis fusion.

Question 15

Paragraph Structure

Answer 15

Thesis linking sentence, explain tone, themes and techniques to address. Address examples in 1,2,1,3 order for cohesion.

Question 16

How to ensure cohesion in essay

Answer 16

Reaffirm statements established by the thesis and context of the text.

Question 17

Dichotomy

Answer 17

The contrast between things.

Question 18

Out of Time - Quotes

Answer 18

“Eager to quench and ripen, kiss or kill”
“I and the moment laugh and let him go”
“Leaning against the golden undertow”
“Backward, I saw the birds begin to climb” & “The gulls go down, the body dies and rots”

Question 19

William Street - Quotes

Answer 19

“You find it ugly, I find it lovely”
“Smells rich and rasping, smoke and fat and fish”
“Ghostly trousers, like the dangle of hung men”

Question 20

Wild Grapes - Quotes

Answer 20

“Who gave this bitter fruit their care”
“Here’s where the cherries grew that birds forgot”
“Kissed here – or killed here – but who remembers now?”