Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences
Module A: Textual Conversations
Module B: Critical Study of Literature
Module C: The Craft of Writing
Understanding HSC Papers
100
What is the title of and composer of our Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences prescribed text?
Waste Land by Lucy Walker
100
What are the names and composers of our Module A prescribed texts?
The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
100
What is Eliot's full name?
Thomas Stearns Eliot
100
What are the 5 core text types?
Imaginative, Persuasive, Informative, Discursive, Reflective
100
How much reading time are you allocated for Paper 1?
10 mins
200
What is a paradox?
A seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true.
200
What is the term used to describe a story being crafted within another story?
Mise en abyme
200
What is the name of the literary device where a set of objects, situations, or events is used to represent a specific emotion
Objective Correlative
200
List our 3 Module C prescribed texts.
Eulogy for Gough Whitlam, What Time is It Now Where You Are?, Spotty Handed Villainesses
200
Paper 1 is based entirely on which HSC module?
Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences
300
What is the style of documentary filmmaking characterised by its focus on capturing reality with minimal intervention from the filmmaker.
Cinema verite
300
What is the term used to describe a 'clean slate' or 'fresh start'
Tablua Rasa
300
What is the famous modernist manifesto quote by Ezra Pound?
Make it New
300
What is the name of the technique Pearson uses in Eulogy for Gough Whitlam that replaces a name with an epithet.
Antonomasia
300
How many sections are there in total across the two English papers?
5 sections
400
List the 7 catadores at the core of the Waste Land documentary
Zumbi, Valter, Tiao, Isis, Suelem, Magna, Irma
400
List 3 different textual forms that are hybridised in The Tempest?
Pastoral Romance, Masque, Commedia, Revenge Play, Tragedy
400
What are the SPIN features of a dramatic monologue?
Silent Audience, Psychological Portraiture, Implicit Narrative, Narrator in First person
400
Fill in the missing words from this module statement extract:
During the editing stages students apply the conventions of __________, _________, punctuation and grammar appropriately and effectively for publication.
Syntax, spelling
400
How long should you allow yourself to complete each section of Paper 2?
40 minutes
500
What are the 5 tiers of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
500
Name 2 of the 3 writers who wrote the epigraphs used at the start of the Hag-Seed novel.
Sir Frances Bacon, Charles Dickesn, Percy Bysshe Shelley
500
What is the name of the structural device Eliot uses to craft fragmented memories and create a sense of disorientation in 'Rhapsody on a Windy Night'?
Quincuncial ordination
500
What is the missing phrase at the end of this sentence from the module statement:
They evaluate how writers use language creatively and imaginatively for a range of purposes; to express insights, evoke emotion, describe the wonder of the natural world, shape a perspective or to share an ____________ _____________.
Aesthetic vision
500
What are the 4 different text types you should be prepared to respond to in Paper 1, Section 1?
Prose, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Visual