QCE English & Literature ExtensionPractice Examination 12

This paper covers

• Gothic literary conventions and textual analysis
• Postcolonial world-context critique and Stolen Lands discourse
• Text-centred theoretical approach (New Criticism / formalism)
• World-context-centred theoretical approach (postcolonial theory)
• Theorised close reading of unseen literary text
• Evaluative synthesis of competing theoretical readings
• Scholarly academic register and literary metalanguage
• Tension between aesthetic form and ideological critique
• Gothic space as contested colonial site
• Unit 3 Ways of Reading and Unit 4 Exploration and Evaluation

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.