Module A - Textual Conversations - Practice Questions - HSC Advanced English - Year 12

Module A - Textual Conversations - Practice Questions - HSC Advanced English - Year 12

Question 1: 

Critically evaluate how your understanding of social or personal values are influenced by the textual conversation between your pair of prescribed texts. In your responses, use detailed textual references to compare the composers’ representation of these values.

Question 2:

To what extent does this statement align with your appreciation of textual conversations. 

"At its best, a conversation is a joy and a collaborative construction, building an idea, an insight, sharing experiences; at it's worst it's a battle for territory"

Question 3:

Original minds are not distinguished by seeing the new thing, but by seeing the old familiar thing overlooked as something new. Evaluate your prescribed texts explore this statement. 

Question 4:

Through the language of emotion, texts may provide timeless and universal portraits of humanity. Evaluate this statement in relation to your prescribed texts. 

Question 5:

Everything is being dismantled, reconstructed, recycled. To what end? For what purpose?

To what extent is this statement true of the texts you have studied in this module?

Question 6: 

Evaluate how composers use representation to convey their thoughts and perspectives of the world. In your responses, discuss how your prescribed texts engage in a textual conversation that challenges or affirms the audience’s views of society.

Question 7: 

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” 

To what extent is the above statement true in your study of Textual Conversations? In your responses,

refer to your pair of prescribed texts with a close discussion of the composers’ purposes and intentions.

Question 8: 

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the

appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for

contrast and comparison, among the dead.” 

Drawing on the concepts from the above statement, explore how innovative language concepts, form and style shape new meaning. In your response, closely refer to your pair of prescribed texts.