Syllabus Glossary

• Aesthetic : sense of beauty or appreciation for artistic expression
• Analyse : Considering details with the intent of finding meaning and, to identify patterns, similarities and differences
• Appreciation : Good judgement over quality and value of texts
• Attitudes : outlook/feeling that can be expressed about something
• Audience : group that the creator is adressing
• Author : composer of a work
• Context : Environment the text is created in/responding to
• Convention : widely used/understood practise (aka rules)
• Evaluate : Making a justified judgement based off of available information
• Figurative Language : Word phrases that differ from everyday usage
• Form (of Texts) : shape and structure
• Genre : Categories texts are placed into, based off of subject matter
• Idiom : A group of words having meaning that is not implied by the individual words ("over the moon")
• Interpretation : Act of explaining, reframing or showing your own understanding
• Issues : matters under dispute that are considered to be problems and affect and individual or group
• Language Features : Support meaning
• Language Patterns : arrangement of repeated or corresponding elements in a text
• Medium : the means or channel of communication
• Metalanguage : language used to discuss language
• Mode : various processes of communication
• Mood : Atmosphere or feeling
• POV : ways that a narrator is related to in a story
• Personification : Describing of an inanimate object as if it is living
• Perspectives : Position that things may be considered or viewed
• Prose : Ordinary language used in writing that lacks marked metrical structure
• Reading : process of making meaning of a text
• Readings : Particular interpretations of a text
• Alternative Readings : Focuses on gaps in texts to create meaning
• Resistant Reading : way of reading from a text that challenges or questions the underlying assumptions
• Dominant Reading : way of reading that is the normal way to interpret the text
• Representation : way people, events, issues or subjects are conveyed in texts
• Rhetoric : language of argument using persuasive and forceful language
• Rhetorical Devices : Techniques in arguments used to persuade audiences
• Standard Australian English : SAE, common language of Australians in more formal settings
• Stylistic Choices : selection of features to achieve a purpose
• Stylistic Features : ways that texts aspects are arranged and how they affect meaning
• Synthesise : combine elements into a coherent whole
• Theme : a recurring element
• Tone : the way the voice is delivered
• Voice : Personality of a piece of writing