Russian A-Level
Russian A-Level glossary
31 key terms for Russian A-Level, A to Z, each linked to the topic pages that use it.
31 terms found. Open a term to try a short memory check.
A
- Appendix 2
- The list of prescribed literary texts and films for this qualification, in which this work appears.Pearson Edexcel
- Authentic online media sources
- Material from online media such as news clips, podcasts, vlogs, articles, news websites, social media posts and video clips, which the statement explicitly…Pearson Edexcel
C
- Captivity, friendship and cultural difference
- Themes the film is noted for treating, as presented on screen.Pearson Edexcel
- Change and social transition
- Themes you should be able to discuss in the play, alongside loss and memory.Pearson Edexcel
- Character relationships and narrative sequence
- Secure knowledge of plot, characters and setting, tracking the central family and how scenes are shot and ordered.Pearson Edexcel
- Comedy and sadness combined
- What you examine in how Chekhov combines comedy and sadness in the play.Pearson Edexcel
- Comic exaggeration and dramatic irony
- Gogol's comic and critical methods include comic exaggeration, alongside dialogue and stage directions.Pearson Edexcel
D
- Director, title and year as core identifying facts
- The Russian title, the director's name and the year, learned together as a fixed triple.Pearson Edexcel
E
- Everyday life in the Soviet Union
- The mundane daily routines, frustrations and moments of joy portrayed in Baranskaya's realistic style.Pearson Edexcel
F
- Female endurance across the Soviet era
- Sonya's quiet resilience, traced across several decades of the Soviet period, including WWII and postwar domestic life.Pearson Edexcel
- Feminist critique and social commentary
- The novella's feminist perspective and subtle critique of societal expectations, celebrated for its social commentary.Pearson Edexcel
G
- Gender roles and expectations
- Societal expectations explored in the novella, including the gap between Soviet ideals of equality and the reality of women's lives.Pearson Edexcel
H
- Historical setting and production context of the 1990s
- The historical period in which the film is set, kept separate from its 1990s production context without confusing the two.Pearson Edexcel
- Human dignity under oppression
- The note lists dignity among the themes explored, alongside suffering, in the portrayal of the human spirit.Pearson Edexcel
I
- Identifying main points and specific details
- Recognising the main point or purpose of a source and extracting specific details such as names, numbers, dates or places from both spoken and written material.Pearson Edexcel
- Integration of spoken and written information
- Taking in information from both spoken and written Russian and then using it to answer questions, including combining the two to reach a conclusion not…Pearson Edexcel
L
- Literature as refuge and spiritual sanctuary
- The role of reading classical Russian literature in defining Sonya's worldview and emotional survival, portrayed by Ulitskaya as an enduring sanctuary…Pearson Edexcel
M
- Medium: film
- The form of Крылья, which is studied in Russian and assessed through the relevant route.Pearson Edexcel
- Mistaken identity and deception
- The central deception is that Khlestakov is mistaken for a government inspector.Pearson Edexcel
P
- Prescribed film for 9RU0
- One of the films listed in Appendix 2 from which films are selected for study and assessment for the Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Russian (9RU0).Pearson Edexcel
R
- Recognising opinions and attitudes
- Noticing opinions, attitudes or tone in spoken and written sources and matching them to the correct option.Pearson Edexcel
- Release year: 1966
- The year the film Крылья was released, to be learned with its director and medium as one fact set.Pearson Edexcel
S
- Satire of bureaucracy and corruption
- Gogol builds satire and social comment through dialogue, stage directions and structure, and the officials of a provincial town attempt to conceal corruption.Pearson Edexcel
- Selfless love and devotion
- A central theme in which Ulitskaya portrays Sonya's love and immersion in reading as sources of moral strength and resilience.Pearson Edexcel
- short story
- The genre label the list gives the work, a detail that questions may test recognition of.Pearson Edexcel
- Social criticism in 1836 Russia
- The action should be placed in its 1836 context, and the play related to its social and historical context of 1836 Russia without drifting outside the period.Pearson Edexcel
- Solidarity and individualism among prisoners
- The note refers to interactions with other prisoners and to survival strategies within the camp.Pearson Edexcel
- Survival and endurance
- The note describes a powerful portrayal of endurance and the will to live under extreme conditions.Pearson Edexcel
T
- The double burden of work and family
- The combination of work and household duties faced by women in the Soviet Union, as portrayed through Olga Voronkova's daily routines.Pearson Edexcel
- The fate of the estate and the cherry orchard
- What you follow as you study the whole play as a literary text.Pearson Edexcel
- The routine and dehumanisation of camp life
- The narrative reveals the routines, hierarchies and survival strategies within the camp, covering reveille, work assignments, meals and the evening roll-call.Pearson Edexcel
Where these terms come from
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