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Least Known Lit Cards Flashcards

1
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What are 5 structure techniques to analyse? (SLANV)

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Sequencing
Liminal spaces
Agency+Power
Narrative arcs
Voice

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What is AO2 about?

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●Ways in which meanings are shaped
●analysis of language
●presentation of characters in relation to contemporary times

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What is AO3 about? (Gender)

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●Social Historical Cultural Contexts
●typical representations of gender in the literature of love
●change in social attitudes over time regarding different themes/topics

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What is AO4?

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●explore connections across literary texts
●Plays as a comedy
●representations of key themes/topics across literature

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What is a mock heroic allegory?

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It uses satire to mock its original subject + often employs irony as a critique of societal norms.

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How to conclude a literature essay?

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●Therefore, the …. is in short …
●This may done by the author to encourage…

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What does Marlene say about getting out fast enough?

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‘Of course I couldn’t get out of here fast enough. What was I going to do? Marry a dairyman who’d come home pissed?’

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What was the time period and country for Thatcherism?

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Late 20th century Britain

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What does Caryl Churchill’s play serve as (message) to its audience?

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It serves as an allegory and polemic

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What are Churchill’s intentions by choosing the form of a play?

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She wanted her audience to see and hear the events first hand as they were able to stand and watch.

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What is Marlene an embodiment of?

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She is an embodiment of Margaret Thatcher and her beliefs.

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Whose tasks does Marlene carry out, how does she do it, and what does this do to women?

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She carries out the tasks of the patriarchy by being a woman in power, preventing them (women) from breaking free from their oppression.

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How does Marlene ‘weaken’ women in the play? What other word can be used in place of ‘weaken’.

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She debilitates women by being in a place of power, similar to that of the patriarchy.

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What are the characters present for the doubling of parts?

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Dull Gret = Angie
Isabella Bird = Joyce

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What is the sequencing like in the play for the events that occur? Act 1(3) + Act 2(2)

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Act 1 Scene 1- Celebration Scene
Act 1 Scene 2- Jeanine Interview
Act 1 Scene 3- Angie + Kit Movie

Act 2 Scene 1- Louise Interview + Angie’s arrival + Mrs. Kidd
Act 2 Scene 2- Flashback Scene

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Who are the characters present within the first celebratory scene?
(Total=6) MILDPP

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Marlene
Isabella Bird
Lady Nijo
Dull Gret
Pope Joan
Patient Griselda

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What do Angie/Dull Gret’s doubling of parts both represent, describe it’s significance?

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Angie/Dull Gret both represent the working class. Their doubling of parts is significant as it shows how the proletariat is largely affected by the bourgeoisie, as more than 1 character is representative of their characteristics.

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Name all the characters in Top Girls, no matter how insignificant.
4-5-3-4 (16 Total)

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Marlene, Joyce, Angie, Kit

Dull Gret, Isabela Bird, Pope Joan, Lady Nijo, Patient Griselda

Jeanine, Louise, Mrs. Kidd

Win, Nell, Shona, Mr Howard Kidd

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What does the doubling of roles do to the characters’ fixedness?

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It undermines the fixedness of their roles, questioning the certainty of their predicaments.

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Describe the doubling of parts between Isabella Bird/Joyce in the play Top Girls?

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Isabella Bird/Joyce’s doubling of parts is significant as it highlights the difference in opportunities they both have. Isabella’s life as a traveller is contrasted against Joyce’s interminable entrapment within her working-class hometown.

21
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Where is Dull Gret from?

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● 16th-century Brueghel painting

22
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Describe Lady Nijo as a character. (2 points)

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●13th century concubine
●oppressed by the nobility

23
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Describe Patient Griselda as a character. (2 points)

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●A character from European folklore
●Married a nobleman of high rank

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Describe Pope Joan as a character. (2 points)

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●According to legend, she disguised herself as a man in the Middle Ages
●She eventually became pregnant, which led to her and her child being stoned to death

25
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Describe Isabella Bird as a character. (3 points)

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●REAL 19th century English explorer and writer
●Never had children
●work was honoured in her lifetime

26
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What realisation changes Marlene’s opinion of Jeanine?

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The realisation that Jeanine is pursuing more lucrative employment in order to finance a wedding causes Marlene to change her opinion of her.

27
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Which characters in the celebration event in Top Girls are real? (2)

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Lady Nijo and Isabella Bird

28
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What time period was WW1 AND WW2?

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WW1: 1914 to 1918
WW2: 1939 to 1945

29
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What time was 1st wave feminism?

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1st wave feminism: 1848 to 1920

30
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What time was 2nd wave feminism?

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2nd: 1960s to 1970s

31
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What time was 3rd wave feminism?

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3rd: 1990s to 2010s

32
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What is another to say a play is ‘put on’?

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A play is ‘staged’

33
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What to think of when you see significance?

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How meanings encoded?

34
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What is syntax?

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The arrangement of words/phrases

35
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What is a caesura?

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Breaks in rhythm, thought or syntax

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What is an end-stopped line?

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A complete thought/phrase that appears on a single line follows by punctuation.

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What is enjambment?

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When a sentence carries over to the next line with punctuation to end it.

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What is the word to describe a list without the use of a conjuction?

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Asyndetic listing

39
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What is the word to describe a list with only conjuctions?

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Polysyndetic listing

40
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What to look for in unseen prose?

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●1st, 2nd, 3rd person narratives

●Reliable/Unreliable narrator

●Limited/Omniscient narrator

●Subjective/Objective narrator

●Stream of consciousness technique

●Start/End of extract

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Who should you refer to in poetry?

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The speaker

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