QCE English & Literature ExtensionPractice Examination 15

This paper covers

• Unseen literary text: original verse novel extract (verse novel genre conventions, free verse, typographical fragmentation, second-person address)
• Text-centred theoretical approach: formalism and structuralism (imagery, prosody, narrative voice, diction, white space, lineation, symbolic patterning)
• World-context-centred theoretical approach: Marxist and materialist criticism (class ideology, labour, alienation, commodity culture, false consciousness, base and superstructure)
• Reader-centred theoretical approach: youth reception theory, affective reading, horizon of expectations (named as supporting lens)
• Close reading of a single unseen literary text in a single sitting
• Theorised extended response integrating text-centred and world-context-centred frameworks
• Evaluation and synthesis of competing theoretical readings and their relative productivity
• Scholarly register, literary-critical metalanguage, academic essay conventions
• QCAA Units 3 and 4: Ways of reading; Exploration and evaluation
• Adolescent subjectivity, working-class suburban space, suburbia as ideological and material construct

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.