Mod A Comparative Exam Questions

“Core concepts and powerful presentations never loose their relevance with time, even if the authors communicating these ideas change they way the ideas are represented.” “Modern ideas are essentially adapted from existing ideas in history.” “Abet the contexts can be vastly different, texts often retain the same values and reinforce the same key themes.” “You …

Module A Comparative Sample – Est. Low Band 5

“Weldon uses Austen to bridge the ‘generation gap’ for the modern reader” Discuss this statement with reference to both texts and a focus on “exploring connections.” Fay Weldon’s book Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen uses Jane Austen and her novel Pride and Prejudice to bridge the ‘generation gap’ for the modern reader. …

Module C Conflicting Perspective Extract 2009 – Hughes Only

Representations of people, ideas and events in various texts unveil the ephemeral nature of perspectives shaped by its reception. The subjectivity of human nature ensures that conflicting perspectives arise from such texts as “The Minotaur” and “Red” from Ted Hughes’ anthology Birthday Letters, the film American Beauty directed by Sam Mendes and the short story …

Module A Distinctive X Questions

“Powerful ideas and distinctive voices never lose their relevance with the passage of time.” Explore how your authors and speakers have engaged with the above statement, make reference to you prescribed text and to two related materials. “Are visions only distinctive in that they appeal to a specific audience, or are they distinctive because they …

Band 6 Powerplay Essay 2006

John Milton in Paradise Lost said that man exists on a wheel of power, alluding to how powerplays often comprise the very core of human interaction. Powerplays are the plots and machinations designed to increase one’s control over their environment and destiny, usually at the expense of others. Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Martin Scorsese’s police …

Band 6 Module B – Speeches 2006

Good morning ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for coming to listen to my seminar on speeches. *the topic is*. The answer is a resounding yes! I’d like to support this view with two favourite speeches of mine, No evil can happen to a good man by Socrates and The political criminal of today must …

Band 6 Journeys Essay 2006 (With Skrzynecki Poems)

The journey is as important as the destination. Discuss. The journey may offer life-changing experiences, but it is ultimately the destination that motivates the traveller to overcome obstacles and achieve their goals, making both equally important. Such physical journeys involve the exploration of new and challenging environments, equipping the traveller with fresh experiences, perspectives and …

Band 6 Emma and Clueless 2006

Jane Austen’s comedy of manners novel Emma and Amy Heckerling’s ‘teenpic’ Clueless, as profound and satirical reflections of Regency England and postmodern America respectively, show how the transformation process can shape and enhance textual, intertextual and contextual meaning. By adapting the genteel, idyllic country society of Highbury to the upper- fast-paced microcosm of modern Beverley …

Band 6 Sample Converted from 2006 Journeys

Waves lapped gently against the old, battered wharf. Sitting on the edge, Chris dangled his long, thin legs in midair, looking out to the orange sunset that was swallowing the horizon. He anxiously glanced at his digital wristwatch every now and then, eagerly anticipating the arrival of that particular person. “Been waiting long?” suddenly said …

Module C Sample Questions

Conflicting Perspectives - You are a lecturer at an English University. You are invited to speak about Conflicting Perspectives. The title of your speech is “Conflict and Perspective, what is the difference?” Write Transcript make ref to your prescribed text, etc. You are a HSC student who has been given the opportunity to interview the …

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Unfinished Nano Narrative – Shanghai Barbarians

I The Major and I sat in a dinky shadowy cell below the prison complex under Bridge Street. Above us the streets hummed with the most metropolitan of machines carrying the most cosmopolitan of people. The droning of internal combustion motor cars jarred the foot falls of one-man rickshaws.  The Major was slowly working his …

High Band 5 Low 6 Belonging Essay

Belonging can be defined as the human need for security, safety and acceptance inherent in all of us. Aspects of belonging such as alienation and isolation can be associated with the concept of belonging, as not belonging is a reciprocal process of belonging. Belonging allows for the substantiation of characters through the formation of identity …

Cutout Paragraph from Crucible Essay 2009

Salem as a dynamic of belonging examining the emergence of each individual as social puppets – Proctor – Parris – Harthorne, Danforth and Hale. Individualism versus Socialism. The lack of understanding in the Crucible between the public church and individual who are persecuted formulate a dichotomy of suffering that relates to its inability to find …

Sample Narrative 2009 Band 5

Bhasha – the word rolled round Rahat's mouth like a sour plum. In the tongue of his familial roots, it meant home – a place where you belonged. The word was however lost to Rahat. The Great War between Pakistan and India had spread even to the small village Norkapon. He was drafted into the …