Key terms & definitions

An artistic approach that uses distortion and exaggeration to convey feelings rather than simply reproduce appearances.

An artistic approach that uses stylised or abstract imagery to convey inner emotions rather than simply reproduce external reality.

A style that alters the appearance of the world to communicate a character’s inner feelings rather than simply reproduce external reality.

The caring, nurturing and emotionally supportive role that Parsons associated with women in the family.

The forced removal of people from a country or territory.

Prayer spoken spontaneously rather than read from a prepared text.

An 8-bit extension of ASCII with 256 possible codes, allowing additional characters and symbols.

Relatives beyond parents and their children, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.

A family including relatives beyond parents and their children, such as grandparents, aunts and uncles. They do not necessarily live together.

A family that includes relatives beyond parents and their children, such as grandparents, aunts or uncles.

A comparison developed across several lines or throughout a text.

A developed comparison using words such as ‘like’ or ‘as’, which expands a scene through an image drawn from another situation.

The increase in an object’s length compared with its original, unloaded length.

The increase in an object’s length compared with its unstretched length, measured in metres (m).

A movement that increases the angle at a joint, such as straightening the elbow or knee.

An action intended to maintain or increase sales of an existing product, delaying its decline and extending its life.

Raising grazing animals over large areas of land, often where conditions are unsuitable for growing crops.

An angle outside a polygon between one side and the extension of an adjacent side.

A camp established primarily to carry out mass murder, particularly of Jews.

Treatment in which high-energy radiation beams are directed at a tumour from equipment outside the body.

Communication between a business and people outside it, such as customers and suppliers.

A struggle between characters or groups, such as the fighting between the Montagues and Capulets.

Contamination on the surface of an object or the outside of the body.

A harmful effect of business activity borne by people outside the business, such as disturbance to nearby residents from delivery noise.

Information obtained from outside a business, such as published statistics, newspaper articles and market reports.

Money obtained from outside a business to help fund its activities, such as a bank loan or investment.

A force exerted on the chosen object or system by something outside its boundary.

A force exerted on a system by something outside that system.

Expansion by combining with another business through a merger or takeover.

A factor outside a business’s immediate control that can affect its activities, decisions or performance.