QCE English & Literature ExtensionPractice Examination 7

This paper covers

• Unseen literary text — original migrant memoir extract (language loss, cultural hybridity, multicultural Melbourne)
• Text-centred approaches: narratology, structural analysis, stylistics, free indirect discourse, imagery and figurative language
• World-context-centred approaches: postcolonial theory (Bhabha's third space, hybridity, mimicry), cultural materialism (Williams's structures of feeling, hegemony), reader-centred approaches (Iser's implied reader, gaps and silences)
• Close reading and theorised interpretation of an unseen text in a single extended response
• Evaluation and synthesis of the relative productivity of competing theoretical frameworks
• Scholarly register, literary-critical metalanguage, and conventions of academic extended writing
• Units 3 and 4: Ways of reading and Exploration and evaluation — QCAA English and Literature Extension

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.