Arabic A-Level
Arabic A-Level glossary
25 key terms for Arabic A-Level, A to Z, each linked to the topic pages that use it.
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A
- Accurate extraction of detail, figures and reported views
- Identifying what each source claims, including figures, names and stated causes, and noting who says what before combining.Pearson Edexcel
- Applying source information to a set question
- Using the combined information to answer the specific question asked rather than summarising the sources generally.Pearson Edexcel
- Authorship and period context
- Attributing the play to both بهجت قمر and سمير خفاجي, not to one writer alone, and keeping analysis within 1969.Pearson Edexcel
C
- Cairo as setting and social world
- The Cairene setting of the novella, on which study of the text should focus.Pearson Edexcel
- Character and relationships
- Knowledge of the play's characters and character relationships, supported by accurate reference to the Arabic text.Pearson Edexcel
- Character and setting
- Elements of the whole film that learners should know from study, alongside its narrative.Pearson Edexcel
- Character motivation and conflict
- Framing analytical points around character motivation and directorial choices, including the psychological dilemmas and dramatic tension in specific scenes.Pearson Edexcel
- Cinematic form and period context
- Treating the work as a film placed in 2005, keeping analysis within that period and anchoring factual recall to 2005.Pearson Edexcel
- Close reading of Arabic written texts
- Return to the relevant part of the text and read the surrounding sentences, not just the line containing a matching word.Pearson Edexcel
D
- Directorial technique
- The director choices shown through cinematic technique such as camerawork, editing and sound, analysed with reference to specific sequences.Pearson Edexcel
- Directorial technique and cinematography
- Analysis of how هاني أبو أسعد uses cinematic techniques, including cinematography, sound and dialogue, to explore moral and social themes.Pearson Edexcel
- Discourse connectors
- Words such as لكن، بينما، رغم أن that combine with verb forms, tense, pronoun chains and evaluative vocabulary as clues to implied meaning.Pearson Edexcel
- Dramatic form and staging
- Identifying the work as a stage play with scenes, dialogue and staging rather than a film or novel.Pearson Edexcel
E
- Evaluating options against textual evidence
- Check whether an option is supported by the text or merely plausible, since distractors often reuse vocabulary while changing the meaning.Pearson Edexcel
- Evidence
- Specific words in the text that must support the correct option, rather than general knowledge or repetition of vocabulary.Pearson Edexcel
I
- Inference
- Working out what a complex Arabic passage implies when the answer is not stated outright, by reading the whole extract and combining clues.Pearson Edexcel
M
- Main points versus supporting detail
- You must distinguish the central ideas of a passage from the detail that supports them.Pearson Edexcel
P
- Period context
- Keeping analysis within the stated period of 2012, without importing later films or unrelated contexts.Pearson Edexcel
- Prescribed film study
- Study of a cinematic work listed in Appendix 1, covering narrative, characters, setting, cinematography, sound and its central concerns.Pearson Edexcel
- Prescribed literary text study
- Study of the play سيدتي الجميلة as a prescribed literary text in Appendix 1, focusing on plot, characters and dramatic technique from the whole play.Pearson Edexcel
R
- Recognising agreement and conflict between sources
- Noting where sources agree or conflict, and reflecting this in the chosen option.Pearson Edexcel
- Recognising links such as cause, contrast and qualification
- Watch for negation, qualification, comparison and cause-and-effect links when reading the passage.Pearson Edexcel
S
- Science and medicine versus popular religious belief
- A central theme of the novella, described as the tension between traditional belief and modern medicine.Pearson Edexcel
T
- Tradition and modernity in mid-twentieth-century Egypt
- The central conflict in the novella between traditional Egyptian life and Western scientific medicine.Pearson Edexcel
V
- Vocabulary deduction
- Using word roots and patterns to work out unfamiliar vocabulary in context instead of guessing from English cognates.Pearson Edexcel
Where these terms come from
Each definition is one we publish on a Arabic A-Level topic page or study guide. Open a term to see how each exam board words it and which topic it belongs to. For the full course, go to Arabic revision or the glossary for every subject.
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