GLOSSARY

• Aesthetic


  A sense of beauty or an appreciation of artistic expression
• Appreciation


  The act of discerning the quality and value of literary texts
• Attitude


  A stance regarding a situation, idea, character, event or issue
• Audience


  The group of readers, listeners or viewers that it is presumed that the writer, or speaker is addressing
• Author


  The composer or originator of a work
• Context


  The environment in which a text is produced or received
• Convention


  An accepted practice that has developed over time and is generally used and understood
• Critical perspectives


  Views formed by students when they make meaning from literature by engaging with aspects of the text(s) studied
• Dialogue


  Conversation between two characters in a literary text, or the process by which readers engage with texts over time
• Discourse


  The language or terminology used in the discussion of a subject or field of study
• Figurative language


  Word groups or phrases used in a way that differs from the expected or everyday usage
• Forms of texts


  The shape and structure of texts
• Genre


  The categories into which texts are grouped
• Ideology


  A system of attitudes, values, beliefs and assumptions
• Intertextuality


  The process by which a reader makes connections between texts
• Language features


  The features of language that support meaning
• Language patterns


  The arrangement of identifiable repeated or corresponding elements in a text
• Marginalise


  Alienate the views of, or underplay the significance of groups or individuals
• Medium


  The resources used in the production of texts, including the tools and materials used
• Mode


  The various processes of communication: listening, speaking, reading/viewing and writing/creating
• Multimodal text


  A text that combines two or more communication modes
• Multiple readings


  A literary text is open to interpretation, can be read in a number of ways, depending on the reading strategies that readers are employing
• Narrative


  A story of events or experiences, real or imagined
• Narrative point of view

  The position or vantage-point from which the events of a story seem to be observed and narrated to the reader
• Naturalise


  If writers or texts frequently represent an idea or group of people in a certain stereotypical way, then readers might assume that that's the way things are
• Perspective


  The way a reader/viewer is positioned by the author through the text, or how a particular ideology is embedded in a text
• Point of view


  An opinion or viewpoint
• Reading strategies/reading practices


  Ways readers make meaning of texts
• Representation


  In literary texts, words, phrases or sentences that re-present (as opposed to 'reflect') reality
• Resonances


  Aspects of texts that resound or echo for readers
• Rhetorical devices


  Language techniques used in argument to persuade audiences
• Standard Australian English


  The variety of spoken and written English language in Australia used in more formal settings
• Stylistic choices


  The selection of stylistic features to achieve a particular effect
• Stylistic features


  The ways in which aspects of texts are arranged and how they affect meaning
• Text structure


  The ways in which information is organised in different types of texts
• Transformation


  Changing the form or shape of a text, for example, by appropriation, adaptation, subversion or parody
• Types of texts


  • Analytical texts
  • Discursive texts
  • Imaginative texts
  • Persuasive texts
  • Reflective texts
• Voice


  The nature of the voice projected in a text