QCE English & Literature ExtensionPractice Examination 17

This paper covers

• Theorised close reading of an unseen European translated short story featuring domestic objects as sites of uncanny meaning
• Text-centred approach: Russian Formalist defamiliarisation (ostranenie) — Shklovsky, Barthes's reality effect, Genette's narrative ellipsis
• World-context-centred approach: psychoanalytic literary criticism — Freudian uncanny/unheimlich, object relations theory (Klein, Winnicott), Lacanian objet petit a
• Structural and semiotic analysis as a complementary text-centred lens (Barthes semiotics, free indirect discourse, simile, semantic negation)
• Integration of Unit 3 Ways of Reading frameworks with Unit 4 evaluative scholarly synthesis
• Extended response essay demonstrating Criterion 1 (close reading), Criterion 2 (theory application), Criterion 3 (evaluation and synthesis), Criterion 4 (scholarly register)
• ISMG 35-mark allocation: Criterion 1 = 10 marks, Criterion 2 = 10 marks, Criterion 3 = 10 marks, Criterion 4 = 5 marks

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.