Flashcards and recall.

Try this with English as an Additional Language

1. Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
2. Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
3. Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.

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Recall topics

• Reading and viewing strategies
• Skimming versus scanning a set text
• First reading versus close reading of a set text
• Why annotate your set text as you read it?
• Prediction as a reading strategy
• Viewing strategies for a film or drama text
• Contextual guessing of unfamiliar vocabulary
• Note-form summary
• Rereading a key passage before the exam
• Motivation (character)
• Stated versus inferred motivation
• How do you write about a character's motivation without retelling the plot?
• Foil (character)
• Protagonist and antagonist
• Direct and indirect characterisation
• Character arc
• Interior monologue
• Tensions in relationships
• Internal versus external conflict
• Power imbalance between characters
• Subtext in dialogue
• What textual signals suggest unspoken tension between two characters?
• Parallel relationships in a text
• Setting
• Function of setting
• Atmosphere (mood) in a text
• Pathetic fallacy
• Symbolic setting
• Temporal setting
• Plot
• Complexities of plot
• Exposition, rising action, climax and resolution
• Subplot
• Foreshadowing
• Flashback (analepsis)
• In medias res
• Point of view
• First-person narration
• Third-person limited narration
• Third-person omniscient narration