YEAR 10TERM 3 EXAM

40min (15mks)

Part 1 Analytical paragraph (spend approximately 15min on this section)

Excerpt adapted from South Country by Kenneth Slessor

After the whey-faced anonymity
Of river-gums and scribbly-gums and bush,
After the rubbing and the hit of brush,
You come to the South Country

As if the argument of trees were done,

The doubts and quarrelling, the plots and pains,
All ended by these clear and gliding planes
Like an abrupt solution.

And over the flat earth of empty farms

The monstrous continent of air floats back
Coloured with rotting sunlight and the black,
Bruised flesh of thunderstorms:

Air arched, enormous, pounding the bony ridge,

Ditches and hutches, with a drench of light,
So huge, from such infinities of height,
You walk on the sky’s beach

While even the dwindled hills are small and bare,

As if, rebellious, buried, pitiful,
Something below pushed up a knob of skull,
Feeling its way to air.

Write a PEEL paragraph (Topic sentence with cause and effect, 4 EE’s, concluding sentence) with at
least 4 quotes to the following question:
Analyse how the composer confronts audiences with a setting of bleakness and animosity.
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Part 2 Creative Writing (spend approximately 25min on this section)

“Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how
many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went
there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived,
that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very
much.” – The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Write a piece of imaginative writing based on the ideas in this extract (10mks)
Note: You are NOT required to write out the extract as part of your response.
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