HSC Mock Trial Examination

Examiners: Djaco75 & Reconsidered

Higher School Certificate

English Advanced
Paper 2 – Modules

General Instructions

• Reading time – 5 minutes

• Working time – 2 hours
• Write using black pen

Total marks: 60

Section I – 20 marks
• Attempt O N E Question from Questions 1 – 7
• Allow about 40 minutes for this section

Section II – 20 marks
• Attempt ONE Question from Questions 8 – 14
• Allow about 40 minutes for this section

Section III – 20 marks

• Attempt Question 15
• Allow about 40 minutes for this section
Section I – Module A: Textual Conversations
20 marks
Attempt O N E Question from Questions 1 - 7
Allow about 40 minutes for this section

• Demonstrate understanding of how composers are influenced by another text’s

concepts and values
• Evaluate the relationships between texts and contexts
• Organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience,
purpose and form

Question 1 – Shakespearean Drama & Film (20 Marks)

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

Ravi Zacharias

How does Pacino use mise-en-scène in Looking for Richard to renovate the theocratic
values held by King Richard III?

In your response, make close reference to the pair of prescribed texts you have
studied in this module.

The prescribed texts are:

v William Shakespeare, King Richard III and
v Al Pacino, Looking for Richard

OR
Question 2 – Prose Fiction & Film (20 Marks)

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

Ravi Zacharias

How does Daldry use cinematography in The Hours to renovate the interpersonal
values held by Mrs Dalloway?

In your response, make close reference to the pair of prescribed texts you have
studied in this module.

The prescribed texts are:

v Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway and
v Stephen Daldry, The Hours

OR

Question 3 – Prose Fiction & Prose Fiction (20 Marks)

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

Ravi Zacharias

How does Daoud use suspense in The Mersault Investigation to renovate the
philosophical values held by The Stranger?

In your response, make close reference to the pair of prescribed texts you have
studied in this module.

The prescribed texts are:

v Albert Camus, The Stranger and
v Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation

OR
Question 4 – Poetry & Drama (20 Marks)

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

Ravi Zacharias

How does Edson use metaphor in W;t to renovate the metaphysical values held by
John Donne’s poetry?

In your response, make close reference to the pair of prescribed texts you have
studied in this module.

The prescribed texts are:

v John Donne, John Donne: A Selection of His Poetry
The prescribed poems are:
Ø The Sunne Rising
Ø The Apparition
Ø A Valedction: forbidding mourning
Ø This is my playes last scene
Ø At the round earths imagin’d corners
Ø If poisonous minerals
Ø Death be not proud
Ø Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse
and
v Margaret Edson, W;t

OR
Question 5 – Poetry & Film (20 Marks)

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

Ravi Zacharias

How does Campion use sensuality in Bright Star to renovate the Romantic values
held by John Keats’ poetry?

In your response, make close reference to the pair of prescribed texts you have
studied in this module.

The prescribed texts are:

v John Keats, The Complete Poems
The prescribed poems are:
Ø La Belle Dame sans Merci
Ø To Autumn
Ø Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art
Ø Ode to a Nightingale
Ø Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ø When I have fears that I may cease to be
Ø The Eve of St Agnes, XXIII
and
v Jane Campion, Bright Star

OR
Question 6 – Shakespearean Drama & Prose Fiction (20 Marks)

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

Ravi Zacharias

How does Atwood use metatheatre in Hag-Seed to renovate values regarding ‘the
other’ held by The Tempest?

In your response, make close reference to the pair of prescribed texts you have
studied in this module.

The prescribed texts are:

v William Shakespeare, The Tempest and
v Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed

OR
Question 7 – Poetry & Poetry (20 Marks)

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

Ravi Zacharias

How does Hughes use imagery in Birthday Letters to renovate the political values
held by Ariel?

In your response, make close reference to the pair of prescribed texts you have
studied in this module.

The prescribed texts are:

v Sylvia Plath, Ariel
The prescribed poems are:
Ø Daddy
Ø Nick and the Candlestick
Ø A Birthday Present
Ø Lady Lazarus
Ø Fever 103°
Ø The Arrival of the Bee Box
and
v Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
The prescribed poems are:
Ø Fullbright Scholars
Ø The Shot
Ø A Picture of Otto
Ø Fever
Ø Red
Ø The Bee God

End of Section I
Section II – Module B: Critical Study of Literature

20 marks
Attempt O N E Question from Questions 8 - 14
Allow about 40 minutes for this section

• Demonstrate an informed understanding of the ideas expressed in the text

• Evaluate the relationships between texts and contexts
• Evaluate the text’s distinctive language and stylistic qualities
• Organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience,
purpose and form

Question 8 – Prose Fiction (20 Marks)

There is no truth in prose fiction.

To what extent does truth determine the value of a prose fiction novel?

In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.

The prescribed texts are:

v Jane Austen, Emma
OR
v Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
OR
v Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

OR
Question 9 – Poetry (20 Marks)

(a) T S Eliot, T S Eliot: Selected Poems

There is no truth in poetry.

To what extent does truth determine the value of Eliot’s poetry?

In your response, make close reference to Rhapsody on a Windy Night and at

least ONE other prescribed poem.

The prescribed poems are:

v The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

v Preludes
v Rhapsody on a Windy Night
v The Hollow Men
v Journey of the Magi

OR

(b) David Malouf, Earth Hour

There is no truth in poetry.

To what extent does truth determine the value of Malouf’s poetry?

In your response, make close reference to Ladybird and at least ONE other
prescribed poem.

The prescribed poems are:

v Aquarius
v Radiance
v Ladybird
v A Recollection of Starlings: Rome ‘84
v Eternal Moment at Poggia Madonna
v Towards Midnight
v Earth Hour
v Aquarius II

OR
Question 10 – Drama (20 Marks)

There is no truth in drama.

To what extent does truth determine the value of a play?

In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.

The prescribed texts are:

v Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
OR
v Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
OR
v Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

OR

Question 11 – Nonfiction (20 Marks)

There is no emotion in nonfiction.

To what extent does emotion determine the value of a nonfiction piece?

In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.

The prescribed texts are:

v Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes
OR
v Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

OR
Question 12 – Film (20 Marks)

George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck

There is no truth in film.

To what extent does truth determine the value of a film?

In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.

OR

Question 13 – Media (20 Marks)

Gillian Armstrong, Unfolding Florence

There is no emotion in media.

To what extent does emotion determine the value of a media piece?

In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.

OR

Question 14 – Shakespearean Drama (20 Marks)

William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I

There is no truth in drama.

To what extent does truth determine the value of a Shakespearean play?

In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.

End of Section II
Section III – Module C: The Craft of Writing
20 marks
Attempt Question 15
Allow about 40 minutes for this section

• Craft language to address the demands of the question

• Use language appropriate to audience, purpose and context to deliberately shape
meaning

Question 15 (20 Marks)

(a) “Without effort his memory retained the names and images of the 5
protagonists; the illusion took hold of him almost at once. Word by word,
immersed in the sordid dilemma of the hero and heroine, he let himself go
toward where the images came together and took on colour and
movement. A lustful, yearning dialogue raced down the pages like a rivulet
of snakes, and one felt it had all been decided from eternity. From this
hour on, each instant had its use minutely assigned.”

Julio Cortázar, The Continuity of Parks

In what ways has Cortázar has explored the craft of writing in The
Continuity of Parks?

(b) Imagine that you are the Julio Cortázar. You have been asked to 15
\\\\\give a speech about how you crafted the provided extract.

Compose a piece of discursive or persuasive writing that explores

your imaginative craft.

End of Section III

End of Examination