QCE English & Literature ExtensionPractice Examination 20

This paper covers

• Unseen literary text — hybrid genre: journalism, fiction, testimony
• Discourse analysis as text-centred approach
• Postcolonial theory as world-context-centred approach
• Reader-centred resistant reading
• Close reading of textual features: narrative voice, genre hybridity, deictic shift, intertextuality
• Theorised extended response in scholarly register
• Evaluation and synthesis of competing theoretical frameworks
• Asylum seeker experience as literary-political subject
• Unit 3 Ways of Reading and Unit 4 Exploration and Evaluation
• ISMG Criteria 1–4 (10+10+10+5)

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.