Common Mo: PTS
Mod A: The Castle
Mod B: Robert Gray
Misc.
100

True or false: 'Human desire' is mentioned in the TAHE rubric.

False.

100

How much is the Kerrigan house valued at by the Property Valuer?

$70,000

100

Name one of Robert Gray's poems.

Journey, the North Coast

Flames and Dangling Wire

Harbour Dusk

Byron Bay: Winter

Description of a Walk

24 Poems

100

Who was the first to leave One Direction?

Zayn.

200

Identify five key words that are used in NESA's rubric statement for the Common Module: TAHE.

Motivations, behaviours, paradoxes, anomalies, inconsistencies, human behaviour, qualities, emotions, individual and collective human experiences.

200

News reporters refer to the case of the Kerrigan family in the High Court as 'Darryl and Goliath'. What language feature is being used in this reference?

Biblical allusion.

200

What is the name of Gray's collection of poetry that we have studied from?

Coast Road

200

What is Harry Styles' middle name?

Edward.

300

Identify two aspects of form that Parrett uses in Past the Shallows.

Non-linear narrative structure, cyclical structure, third-person omniscient narrator.

300

The Kerrigan's live in a modest neighbourhood in Melbourne. What is the name of the suburb where this undeveloped culture-de-sac is located?

Coolaroo.

300

In the following quote alliteration and ONE other language feature can be identified: "the cicada's shekel sound." What is the other feature?

Sibilance.

300

Finish the Swift lyrics: "I walked through the door with you, the air was cold. But something about it felt like home somehow. And I, ____________________" (8 words missing)

"...left my scarf there at your sister's house."

400

Harry made an unlikely friend in the neighbourhood 'gothic monster' George Fuller and his puppy. What was the dog's name?

Jake.

400

Finish the quote: "The only reason I love that house is cause it's got ______________." (5 words missing)

"...him and mum in it."

400

All of Gray's poems have one common aspect of form. What is it?

They are written in free verse. Meaning, his poems do not use consistent metre or rhyming patterns. 

400

What film grossed the most money in 2023?

Barbie.

500

There were many contextual factors that influenced Parrett's Past the Shallows. For full marks: Where did she grow up? What was one location where her love for surfing began? And who was one figure in her life that shaped her writing? 

Hobart, Tasmania. Bruny Island. Her younger brother.

500

Finish Darryl's comeback at the barristers comment in court: "What are you calling an ___________? It's called a home you d*head!"

Eyesore.

500

The North Coast of Gray's childhood often features in many of his poems, sometimes through direct use of topographia. Provide a definition for topographia and refer to a poem in which this can be found.

Topographia = the description of a real place. 'Journey, the North Coast' and 'Byron Bay: Winter'

500

Which two ninjas have never been shirtless at any point in a Ninjago series?

Nya and Zane.