Advanced terminology and literary frameworks for high-scoring HL essay writing and Paper 1 analysis.
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Discourse
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Language use as a form of social practice shaped by and shaping power dynamics, identity, and ideology; analyzing discourse involves examining who speaks, who is silenced, and what knowledge is validated.
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Intertextuality
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A literary concept describing the relationship between texts, especially how one text references, responds to, or transforms another. It involves the ways texts echo, adapt, or rework earlier works or other cultural texts.
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Metanarrative
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Grand, overarching theories or stories that claim to explain historical or social phenomena (e.g., progress, science); often deconstructed in postmodernism to reveal their subjective nature.
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Syntactic Ambiguity
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Grammatical structures that allow for multiple interpretations; Unlike lexical ambiguity (words), this arises from sentence syntax (e.g., 'I saw the man with the telescope'), often used to create complexity or uncertainty.
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Foregrounding
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A technique where specific linguistic elements (deviations from norm, patterns of repetition) are made prominent to defamiliarize the reader and force deeper engagement with the text.
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