Least Known Lit Cards Flashcards
What are 5 structure techniques to analyse? (SLANV)
Sequencing
Liminal spaces
Agency+Power
Narrative arcs
Voice
What is AO2 about?
●Ways in which meanings are shaped
●analysis of language
●presentation of characters in relation to contemporary times
What is AO3 about? (Gender)
●Social Historical Cultural Contexts
●typical representations of gender in the literature of love
●change in social attitudes over time regarding different themes/topics
What is AO4?
●explore connections across literary texts
●Plays as a comedy
●representations of key themes/topics across literature
What is a mock heroic allegory?
It uses satire to mock its original subject + often employs irony as a critique of societal norms.
How to conclude a literature essay?
●Therefore, the …. is in short …
●This may done by the author to encourage…
What does Marlene say about getting out fast enough?
‘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?’
What was the time period and country for Thatcherism?
Late 20th century Britain
What does Caryl Churchill’s play serve as (message) to its audience?
It serves as an allegory and polemic
What are Churchill’s intentions by choosing the form of a play?
She wanted her audience to see and hear the events first hand as they were able to stand and watch.
What is Marlene an embodiment of?
She is an embodiment of Margaret Thatcher and her beliefs.
Whose tasks does Marlene carry out, how does she do it, and what does this do to women?
She carries out the tasks of the patriarchy by being a woman in power, preventing them (women) from breaking free from their oppression.
How does Marlene ‘weaken’ women in the play? What other word can be used in place of ‘weaken’.
She debilitates women by being in a place of power, similar to that of the patriarchy.
What are the characters present for the doubling of parts?
Dull Gret = Angie
Isabella Bird = Joyce
What is the sequencing like in the play for the events that occur? Act 1(3) + Act 2(2)
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
Who are the characters present within the first celebratory scene?
(Total=6) MILDPP
Marlene
Isabella Bird
Lady Nijo
Dull Gret
Pope Joan
Patient Griselda
What do Angie/Dull Gret’s doubling of parts both represent, describe it’s significance?
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.
Name all the characters in Top Girls, no matter how insignificant.
4-5-3-4 (16 Total)
Marlene, Joyce, Angie, Kit
Dull Gret, Isabela Bird, Pope Joan, Lady Nijo, Patient Griselda
Jeanine, Louise, Mrs. Kidd
Win, Nell, Shona, Mr Howard Kidd
What does the doubling of roles do to the characters’ fixedness?
It undermines the fixedness of their roles, questioning the certainty of their predicaments.
Describe the doubling of parts between Isabella Bird/Joyce in the play Top Girls?
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.
Where is Dull Gret from?
● 16th-century Brueghel painting
Describe Lady Nijo as a character. (2 points)
●13th century concubine
●oppressed by the nobility
Describe Patient Griselda as a character. (2 points)
●A character from European folklore
●Married a nobleman of high rank
Describe Pope Joan as a character. (2 points)
●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
Describe Isabella Bird as a character. (3 points)
●REAL 19th century English explorer and writer
●Never had children
●work was honoured in her lifetime
What realisation changes Marlene’s opinion of Jeanine?
The realisation that Jeanine is pursuing more lucrative employment in order to finance a wedding causes Marlene to change her opinion of her.
Which characters in the celebration event in Top Girls are real? (2)
Lady Nijo and Isabella Bird
What time period was WW1 AND WW2?
WW1: 1914 to 1918
WW2: 1939 to 1945
What time was 1st wave feminism?
1st wave feminism: 1848 to 1920
What time was 2nd wave feminism?
2nd: 1960s to 1970s
What time was 3rd wave feminism?
3rd: 1990s to 2010s
What is another to say a play is ‘put on’?
A play is ‘staged’
What to think of when you see significance?
How meanings encoded?
What is syntax?
The arrangement of words/phrases
What is a caesura?
Breaks in rhythm, thought or syntax
What is an end-stopped line?
A complete thought/phrase that appears on a single line follows by punctuation.
What is enjambment?
When a sentence carries over to the next line with punctuation to end it.
What is the word to describe a list without the use of a conjuction?
Asyndetic listing
What is the word to describe a list with only conjuctions?
Polysyndetic listing
What to look for in unseen prose?
●1st, 2nd, 3rd person narratives
●Reliable/Unreliable narrator
●Limited/Omniscient narrator
●Subjective/Objective narrator
●Stream of consciousness technique
●Start/End of extract
Who should you refer to in poetry?
The speaker
