Our Class
Literary Worlds
Frankenstein
Godot
Heaney
100

Name all the people who have taken EE1 in Stage 6 (year 11 or 12)

Natasha Melzer, Natasha Palaci, Iva Saquing, Abby Cooper, Katie Bull, Jessica Barrable, Lexi Romic

100

When did we start studying "Literary Worlds"?

Term 4, 2023

100

Who wrote 'Frankenstein'?

Mary Shelley

100

Name the two main characters in 'Waiting for Godot'

Vladimir and Estragon

100

What is the upheaval Heaney is writing during?

The Irish Troubles

200

Who ranked 1st in EE1 in Year 11?

Jessica Barrable

200

Who theorised that we should read a book with no regard or consideration for the author?

Roland Barthes

200

Name ONE specific upheaval that Shelley was reflecting in her text

Enlightenment into Romantic, shifting social classes, political revolutions, civil rights movements
200

What year was Waiting for Godot written?

1956

200

How many of Heaney's poems are we studying?

6
300

How many other EE1 classes has Mrs Knight taught?

0

300

What was the theory of representing the world, first voiced by Aristotle and Plato?

Mimesis

300

Name the three characters whose perspectives are voiced in the novel through the Frame Narrative structure.

Walton, Victor and the monster

300

What is the opening line of the play?

"nothing to be done."

300

Name all of the poems in Heaney's collection (that we studied)

Triptych, The Strand at Lough Beg, Casualty, Digging, Whatever You Say Nothing, Funeral Rites

400

What was our class average for the Trial HSC Examination?

61%

400

Name five different elements of building a literary world. 

Setting, Context, Genre, Characterisation, Purpose, Values, Voice/Perspective, Conflict, Language

400

What style of opening is used for the novel?

Epistolary

400

Name 3 features of the text which reflect the upheaval from the hope of modernism into existential/nihilistic postmodern thinking?

Barren Setting, Nonsensical Dialogue, Absence of Temporal Markers, Repetitive Language, Questioning of Meaning/Purpose, Absence of Plot

400

Which poem is this quote from: 

"Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests; snug as a gun"?

Digging

500

How many students sat the EE1 exam in 2023?

3709

500

Which HSC papers have asked for both an analysis/discussion of unseen texts AND a critical/creative response?

2019 ONLY

500

Name the three main intertextual reference made (implicitly or explicitly) in Shelley's novel

Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Paradise Lost, Prometheus Unbound, 

500

What is the final stage direction in the play?

They do not move

500

What technique is within this quote, "Where zoom lenses, recorders and coiled leads/Litter the hotels."?

Tricolon, double entendre, metaphor