English a level - dystopian unseen

Dystopian references and literary techniques

Date and author Fahrenheit 451

1953, Ray Bradbury

Give 10 dystopian tropes

Failed utopia, post-apocalyptic world, political commentary, satire, survivalism, disruption of interpersonal relationships, manipulation of language, power and control, oppression of the individual, resistance and rebellion

2 terms that explore a recurring image

Motif, symbol

2 ways to analyse sentence-level structure

Short sentences build tension, contrasting sentence lengths

4 things to consider when discussing narrative perspective

1/2/3rd person, reliability, omniscience, tense

Date and author gather the daughters

2017, Jennie melamed

Date and author a clockwork orange

1962, Anthony Burgess

Date and author of animal farm

1944, Orwell

Date and author brave new world

1932, Aldous Huxley

Date and author vox

2018, Christina Delcher

4 terms for exploring sentence-level language analysis

Similie, metaphor, personification, hyperbole/liotes

3 ways to analyse whole-text structure

Shift in ideas, climax, difference between opening and ending

5 structural techniques

Juxtaposition, repetition, tricolon, listing for effect, rhetorical question

5 formal techniques

Stream of consciousness, flashbacks or forwards, dialogue, direct speech, reported speech

date and author the lottery

1948, Shirley Jackson

date and author when the sleeper wakes

1899, H.G. Wells

date and time we

1924, Yevgeny Zamyatin

date and author the road

2006, Cormac McCarthy

how does a clockwork orange explore manipulation of language in an unconventional way

Alex and his ‘droogs’, his friends, speak in ‘nadslat’: an teel criminal antilanguage that enables hierarchy among gangs

how does gather the daughters explore futuristic technology in an unconventional way

modern technology is eliminated; they live in an old fashioned way

how does brave new world explore power and control in an unconventional way

“soma,” a drug, is used to keep citizens under control rather than typical fear tactics

How does McCarthy’s the road explore disruption of interpersonal relationships differently

in a post-apocalyptic world where the earth is covered in a cloud making even the sun invisible, a father and son travel by foot together to look for civilisation, sharing deep love and commitment and trying to preserve their memories

date and author the long walk

1979, Stephen King

when was the space race

1955-1969 (first moon landing)

when was the fall of the Berlin wall

1989

summarise gene therapy 2010s

gene therapy revolutionised in early 2010s by discovery of new viral vectors, September 2010 used for the first time to treat an inherited blood disorder

context of the Spanish influenza

1918, took 21 million lives, worst pandemic since the black death

when did the world wide web launch

1993, making the internet accessible

when was the first global peace organisation founded and what is it called

1946, The United Nations

when was the first successful heart transplant operation

1967

when was AIDS first recognised, although not by name, in the USA

1981

when was the nuclear power plant catastrophe in Chernobyl

1986

date and author we ate the children last

2011, Yan Martel

first successful xenotransplantation

1984, a baboon heart