One of the stranger mark allocations I've seen in a HSC Paper. However, I've seen it in many Trial papers, so it's not too problematic. *REMEMBER* these are not the exact answers, this is just what I would have written
Text One, Question AConcepts you may have used:
- The delight of discovery is founded within it's ability to be reinterpreted over time
- The delight of discovery nestles within childhood curiosity
- The naivety of childhood allows the delight of discovery to flourish
- The delight of discovery is grounded within it's simplicity
Techniques:
- 'eight years old' past tense --> conveys how delight may be founded in reconsidering memories/past experiences
- truncated sentences --> mimics how discovery and memory are intertwined
- enjambment --> delight is founded in the consecutive, yet nonetheless interlinked discoveries of the persona
- imagery (for basically any line in the poem) --> the sheer pleasure, and thus delight, conjured by the experience of discovery
Text Two, Novel Extract -> LOVE that has asked you to talk about the reader. This means you must have
explicit reference to them somewhere in your answer
Concepts:
- The journey of discovery is undertaken when our surmised knowledge of the world is challenged
- The journey of discovery is fundamentally made of changing perceptions and the world around us
- The medium of text is vital to the expression and understanding of the process of discovery
Techniques:
-'leisure, light, literature: true happiness': (what a beautiful quote) --> alliteration. Captures the readers attention and thus draws them into the journey of discovery
-rhyming couplet: draws final attention to the character, the proprietor. Centralises him within the experience of discovery, and ultimately highlights, that it is the individual (be they the reader of author) that controls the journey of discovery
Text Three - Non Fiction Extract - Once again, this requires that you acknowledge the authors agency explicitly. That may have looked something like this:
The writer cleverly employs *technique* within the line *quote* to emphasise the role of speculation in...Also important to note that I thought this was a very
very stupid ridiculous,
weird text to include. I emphasise, you don't need to understand what the hell is going on, you just need to answer the question
Concepts:
- Though one may speculate upon the outcomes of an experience, true discovery lies within the unexpected, the unprepared. Therefore, speculation plays little role in the impact of discovery.
- The speculation that underlies one's preconceptions of a discovery founds it's very importance
Techniques:
- Juxtaposition between text and image (and yes, you could use the image as a point of analysis!!): signifies how it is one's own speculation and imagination that creates the significance of a place, and in turn, the significance of a discovery
- Stream of conscious created through caesura (excessive commas): highlights the persona's own speculations/mediations on the importance of the place
- elipses '...' --> in ending on this point, perhaps the author suggests that discovery, and its meaning, is nothing
but speculation. Would be very interested to hear if anyone argued this point
6 MarkerAhh the mini essay. The most interesting part of this is 'justify'. This means that you need to be highly evaluative/argumentative in this answer. This means I would have started the mini essay off like this:
Unexpected discoveries can be intensely meaningful as they most strongly challenge our sense of self and our perceptions of the world around us. This is most successfully explored in Texts One and TwoNow for me, I just wouldn't have touched text three because I thought it was v weird. You're never going to have marks taken off you for doing an 'easier text'. No matter what two texts you picked, your marks are going to be determined by your ability to 'justify' why they convey the unexpected nature of discovery, and how they qualify it's intense meaning.
My mini essay probably would have looked something like this:
- First Paragraph: Focussed on challenging sense of self
- Imagery dominates the majority of the poem. In this way, the persona loses sense of herself, gives herself purely to the experience/environment that surrounds her.
- Unexpected discovery: '
they remember my birthday'. Use of the exclusive, third person pronoun highlights just how lost this sense of self has become. (ie. she has to be reminded of her own birthday). The collective, the surroundings seem more determinative and more important.
- We may imply that through looking back on her childhood memories, (indicated by the past tense), the author better understands how she formed her sense of self as dependent on the world that surrounded her. This is significant for the audience's own understanding of self, and how it relates to the surrounding world.
- Paragraph Two: Perceptions of world around us
- Title - 'to be'. Captures the reader's intrigue. Unexpected analysis/pun of a commonly used phrase/auxiliary verb.
- Rhetorical question: 'how many people in the not too distant future will be left who understand what bookshops and booksellers used to meant to people like me?' -- suggests that 'to be' is transient. The world around us is contingent
- 'he who first discovers, he who finds- - anaphora. Suggests that 'to be' is ultimately defined by the individual. Reader is exposed to the transient and subjective nature of language. Significant to how they approach and appreciate the worth of not only this text, but texts that they read in the future.