Turkish A-Level
Turkish A-Level glossary
22 key terms for Turkish A-Level, A to Z, each linked to the topic pages that use it.
22 terms found. Open a term to try a short memory check.
A
- Absence and disappearance
- A central theme developed through the barber who disappears in the village, with uncertainty and unresolved meaning treated as central to the text.Pearson Edexcel
- Art, painting and self-expression
- One of the central themes the novel develops, which learners should track as it is developed across the text.Pearson Edexcel
- Aşk-ı Memnu
- The 1900 novel by Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil that is a prescribed literary text for this qualification.Pearson Edexcel
- Authorship and the writing process
- A central theme explored through a writer figure in the city who appears to be composing the story, discussed as a constructed character within the fiction…Pearson Edexcel
- Aydın, Nihal and Necla
- The major characters around whom a character map is built, whose relationships and tensions the film tracks.Pearson Edexcel
B
- Bihter, Behlül, Adnan Bey and Nihal
- The major characters whose relationships you identify and map when studying the novel.Pearson Edexcel
- Bosphorus yalı
- The principal setting of Adnan Bey, examined within the late Ottoman period.Pearson Edexcel
C
- Central marital transgression
- The plot detail whose consequences you recall accurately, alongside the courtship, the marriage, the secret relationship and the ending.Pearson Edexcel
- Contextual vocabulary
- Confirming the meaning of Turkish vocabulary and sentence structure from context rather than assuming cognates.Pearson Edexcel
- Cultural displacement between Berlin and Ankara
- A theme developed through the main notebook narrative set in late 1920s Berlin and the Ankara frame story set in the 1930s.Pearson Edexcel
D
- Detail retrieval
- Scanning for the particular detail a question asks about, such as a name, figure, reason or sequence of events.Pearson Edexcel
- Director and release context
- The film's title, its director and its year, which learners should know so they can place it within the prescribed list.Pearson Edexcel
- Distractor discrimination
- Watching for options that are true in the text but do not answer the question asked, and distinguishing main points from illustrative examples.Pearson Edexcel
- Dream, uncertainty and the instability of reality
- A central theme in which boundaries between reality and fiction become unstable, so that uncertainty is part of the novel's method rather than a puzzle with…Pearson Edexcel
G
- Gist comprehension
- Reading a Turkish text to grasp its overall message, including what it is about, who is involved and the writer's stance.Pearson Edexcel
H
- Hotel in Cappadocia
- The principal setting of the film, noted together with the surrounding village and village life.Pearson Edexcel
K
- Kış Uykusu
- The 2014 film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan that is one of the prescribed films for this qualification.Pearson Edexcel
L
- Loneliness and emotional isolation
- A central theme of the novel, developed alongside art, memory and cultural displacement, and linked to how place relates to the characters' isolation.Pearson Edexcel
M
- Memory and retrospective narration
- A central theme of the novel, developed through the telling of Raif's story at a distance by a separate frame narrator.Pearson Edexcel
P
- Prescribed film study for 9TU0
- A study entry in Appendix 1 of the Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Turkish (9TU0), not a question in itself, from which the two works studied for the…Pearson Edexcel
S
- Sequence of events
- The order in which things happen, including the opening incident, the marital and sibling tensions and the closing scenes.Pearson Edexcel
V
- Village life and the city
- The main settings of the novel, whose movement between them structures the text and whose strands learners should track and connect.Pearson Edexcel
Where these terms come from
Each definition is one we publish on a Turkish 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 Turkish revision or the glossary for every subject.
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