QCE English & Literature ExtensionPractice Examination 11

This paper covers

• Lyric essay as hybrid genre: prose-poetry formal features and their meaning-making effects
• Queer theory: heteronormativity, homonormativity, compulsory heterosexuality, and queering of space and belonging
• Reader-centred resistant reading: resistant and recuperative reading strategies, implied reader, reading positions
• Text-centred formalism: lyric mode, fragmentation, deixis, second-person address, white space, lineation, and tonal registers
• World-context-centred theory: cultural geography, rural queer identity, settler-colonial landscape, ideology of the bush
• Synthesis and evaluation: relative productivity of text-centred and world-context-centred approaches to this hybrid text
• Scholarly register, metalanguage, and extended academic argument under exam conditions

Students are permitted to bring into the examination the materials normally allowed for this subject. Answer all questions in the spaces provided.

This is an ATARMAxxing practice paper. It is not an official examination and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by the VCAA, NESA or the QCAA.