QCE English & Literature ExtensionPractice Examination 9

This paper covers

• Unseen literary text — speculative fiction excerpt: near-future authoritarian Queensland
• Marxist criticism: ideology, base/superstructure, commodity fetishism, false consciousness, hegemony
• Foucauldian discourse analysis: disciplinary power, surveillance, docile bodies, discourse as truth-production
• Dystopian genre critique: text-centred analysis of defamiliarisation, irony, free indirect discourse, proleptic structure
• Synthesis and evaluation: relative productivity of Marxist vs Foucauldian readings; limits and tensions between frameworks
• Scholarly register and metalanguage: literary-critical terminology, hedging, citation of theoretical concepts by name

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.