QCE English & Literature ExtensionPractice Examination 19

This paper covers

• Modernist stream-of-consciousness stylistics: syntax fragmentation, free indirect discourse, ellipsis, sensory accumulation
• Text-centred formalist analysis: narrative voice, temporal dislocation, imagery, irony, syntactic patterning
• World-context-centred feminist analysis: domestic ideology, the private/public binary, embodied female subjectivity, the politics of silence
• Psychoanalytic reader-centred approach: the unconscious, repression, the return of the repressed, desire and lack
• Reader-centred theory: affective response, gaps and silences, positionality, resistant reading
• Unit 3 Ways of Reading: producing, defending, and challenging theorised readings of an unseen text
• Unit 4 Exploration and evaluation: applying multiple self-selected theories and evaluating their relative productivity
• Evaluation and synthesis: integrating textual analysis, theoretical argument, and interpretive insight into a cohesive extended response
• Controlling scholarly register: literary-critical metalanguage, sustained academic prose, precise grammar and syntax
• Unseen literary text: original modernist interior monologue (~380 words), domestic scene, female protagonist

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.