Key terms & definitions

The representation of an abstract idea, place or natural feature as a human figure, such as Victory or the river Danube.

The people involved in making or promoting a media product, including performers, directors, writers and producers.

A document setting out the essential and desirable qualifications, skills, experience and personal qualities required of a job applicant.

The viewpoint from which someone describes or interprets an issue, influenced by their experiences, interests or role.

A writer’s way of seeing a subject, including their attitudes, experiences and priorities.

A method of representing depth and distance on a flat surface, including making distant objects appear smaller.

A way of looking at an issue that may be shaped by a person's experiences, interests and values.

A change in apparent size or shape caused by the viewing angle or apparent depth of a representation.

A drawing that uses sloping or receding lines, overlap and changes in position to suggest depth on a flat page.

A drawing method that represents depth by making distant objects appear smaller and showing receding parallel edges converging towards vanishing points.

The use of arguments or appeals to influence someone’s beliefs or actions; persuasion need not involve dishonesty.

Writing intended to influence a reader’s opinions or actions through a convincing viewpoint and supporting reasons.

Passover: the Jewish festival remembering the Israelites' liberation from slavery in Egypt.

An outlook that emphasises suffering, disappointment or the likelihood of unhappy outcomes.

An organism that damages crops, stored food or livestock and so reduces agricultural output.

A building used to isolate and care for people suffering from an infectious disease such as plague.

A building used to isolate people suffering from an infectious disease.

A substance used to kill a pest; pesticides include insecticides and herbicides.

Polyethylene terephthalate, a polymer used to make many drinks bottles and polyester fibres.

Polyethylene terephthalate: a plastic used in drinks bottles that can be melted and reshaped, including into fibres.

A unit of data equal to 1,000 terabytes using the decimal convention.

Peter’s declaration that Jesus is the Messiah in Mark 8:29. Here, ‘confession’ means a statement of belief, not an admission of wrongdoing.

Peter’s rejection of the claim that he knew or belonged with Jesus, repeated three times after Jesus’s arrest.

An estimate of population size calculated using $N = \frac{Mn}{m}$, where $$ is the number marked and released, is the second sample size and is the number marked in the second sample.

The population-size estimate $N = \frac{Mn}{m}$, where $$ is the first sample size, is the second sample size and is the number of marked individuals in the second sample.

A formal request asking an authority to remedy a complaint or injustice.

A request made to God in prayer.

A request supported by collected signatures, showing support for a specified change.

A prayer that asks God for something, such as help, healing or spiritual guidance.

A literary convention in which a lover idealises an unattainable beloved and expresses intense suffering, often through exaggerated comparisons and contradictions. It takes its name from the Italian poet Petrarch.