QCE English & Literature ExtensionPractice Examination 3

This paper covers

• Theorised close reading of unseen literary text
• Text-centred analysis: narrative focalisation, free indirect discourse, symbolism, irony, diegetic space
• World-context-centred analysis: Marxist theory (commodity fetishism, surplus labour, class ideology, false consciousness), feminist theory (domestic labour as unpaid gendered work, the second shift, the private/public binary)
• Integration and synthesis of text-centred and world-context-centred approaches
• Evaluation of the relative productivity of Marxist and feminist theoretical readings
• Close reading of original unseen short fiction set in Brisbane suburban domestic space
• Scholarly register and literary-critical metalanguage
• Units 3 and 4: Ways of Reading; 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.