"Buzz" Words (1 Viewer)

[lollypops]

These days for English it seems as though there are specific "Buzz" words which need to be included in essays to get top marks. However I am not fully aware of these words, what they mean and how to use them. Here are a couple that I know:

*Text - book, play, cartoon. movie etc.
*Composer - playwright, journalist, author etc
*Responder - audience etc.

But what about discourse and intertextuality??? If anyone has knows what these mean and how to use them effectively in essays let me know!! Also add another "buzz" words that could be helpful. Thanx

 

[Abbeygale]

Intertextuality is just references to other texts within the text you're studying

Eg Cosi's use of the opera buffa 'Cosi Fan Tutte', Wordsworth's biblical references, a quote from 'Metamorphoses' in 'An Imaginary Life'

 

[ur_inner_child]

discourse is like values, in a way.

like, the dominant gender discourse in Victorian England was that women were seen as possessions.

What an iffy sentence.

But there you go.

 

[Abbeygale]

A word of warning on buzz words-
There's a phenomenon in the French HSC known as 'subjunctivitis'. It's when a student learns a sophisticated language structure, ie the subjunctive, then uses it ad nauseum until the marker wants to stab themselves with their red pen.
It can cross over into English as well. According to the Notes from the Marking Centre-
'the terms 'composer' and 'responder' are useful when referring to writers, poets, directors cartoonists etc in a generic way... when discussing a novelist's work, it is appropriate, and preferable, to discuss a writer, or a director (of film) and so on.'