TAHE (Billy Elliot)
What major real-world British strike serves as the political backdrop for the entire film? What year(s) did this occur?
The 1984–1985 miners' strike.
What does Atwood use a modern prison to represent from Shakespeare's play?
Prospero’s isolated island.
What is the main city-based setting that Eliot uses to show loneliness and decay in his early poetry?
The modern urban street (or city).
Define 'persuasive text'
A persuasive text is any piece of writing designed to convince the reader to adopt a specific point of view, agree with an opinion, or take a particular action
What is the minimum number of poems you MUST include in Module B for T.S Eliot?
Two
What physical tool or object does Prufrock claim he has used to "measure out" his life, symbolising his existential boredom?
Coffee spoons.
What modern role does Felix take on that mirrors Prospero’s role as the controller and illusionist of the island?
A theatre director.
What major historical global conflict deeply influenced the themes of fragmentation and brokenness in Eliot's poetry?
World War I.
What are THREE things a strong discursive should include?
A dilemma
Anecdotes and/or Personal Reflections
Low to Moderate Modality
(other answers possible)
The 2025 Module A HSC question asked students to evaluate the role of ____ in The Tempest and Hag-Seed in enhancing your appreciation of the textual connections between these texts.
1. Illusion
2. Performance
3. Artistry
4. Authority
5. Context
Artistry
What classical ballet does the adult Billy perform at the very end of the film?
Swan Lake.
In reimagining the "Other", how does Atwood shift the post-colonial critique of Caliban's enslavement?
She recontextualises physical colonial subjugation into a critique of systemic Western institutionalised incarceration.
What major personal and spiritual shift in Eliot’s life does this poem symbolise, separating it from the nihilism of his earlier urban poetry?
His conversion to Anglicanism/Christianity.
What technique groups three words or phrases together for maximum impact in a persuasive text?
Tricolon (or the rule of three).
Which TWO T.S. Eliot poems have previously been forced to be included in Module B in the HSC exams?
The Hollow men and Journey of the Magi
What visual editing technique does Daldry use to connect Billy’s dancing joy directly with his father’s tense clashes on the strike lines?
Cross-cutting (or parallel editing).
What final action does Felix take regarding his mental construct of Miranda that mirrors Prospero demanding his own release in the Epilogue?
He says "Set me free" and finally stops hallucinating Miranda's presence.
What modernist literary term, coined by Eliot himself, refers to using a set of objects, a situation, or a chain of events to serve as the formula for a particular emotion?
The objective correlative.
What narrative perspective uses the pronoun "You" to make the reader a direct character inside your imaginative text?
Second-person narrative voice.
In 2019, the Billy Elliot essay question asked students to analyse how the exploration of human experience in Billy Elliot invites you to reconsider your understanding of _____?
1. Passion
2. Commitment
3. Desire
4. Art
5. Acceptance
Commitment
What paradox of the human experience is exposed through Tony and Jackie's initial aggressive, violent resistance to Billy's dancing?
Their desire to protect Billy from social ridicule manifests as abusive hostility and domestic oppression.
What physical substance replaces Prospero’s supernatural sleep spells to incapacitate the targets of revenge in the prison?
Grapes spiked with sedatives (or laced party drugs).
What fictional colonial character from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is declared dead in the poem's opening epigraph?
Mistah Kurtz.
What specific literary device involves writing down a character's unfiltered, continuous internal thoughts exactly as they happen?
Stream of consciousness.
Which of the following Module C splits has NEVER been examined?
1. 20 mark imaginative
2. 5 mark short answer on stimulus + 15 mark imaginative or discursive
3. 12 mark discursive + 8 mark reflection
3. 12 mark discursive + 8 mark reflection