CHERRYBROOK TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL

2019 AP4 Exam

English Advanced
 

Paper 2 – Modules
 

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General  Instructions 
 Reading time – 5 minutes
 Working time – 2 hours
 Write using black pen
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Total marks: 40
Section 1 -20 marks
 Attempt Question 1
 Allow about 40 minutes for this section
Section 2 – 20 marks
 Attempt Question 2
 Allow about 40 minutes for this section
Section 3 – 20 marks
 Attempt Question 3
 Allow about 40 minutes for this section
Section I
20 marks
Attempt Question 1
Allow about 40 minutes for this section
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Your answers will be assessed on how well you:
 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
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Question 1

Textual conversations highlight both what endures and what changes over time.

How is this demonstrated in the texts you have studied in Module A?

Refer closely to both texts in your response.

The prescribed texts for Section I are:
 Shakespearean - William Shakespeare, King Richard 111
Drama and
 Film - Al Pacino, Looking For Richard

 Poetry - John Donne, John Donne: A Selection of his Poetry

The prescribed poems are:
o The Sunne Rising
o The Apparition
o A Valediction: forbidding mourning
o This is my playes last scene
o At the round earths imagin’d corners
o If poisonous minerals
o Death be not proud
o Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse
and
 Drama - Margaret Edson, W;t

 Poetry - Sylvia Plath, Ariel

The prescribed poems are:

o Daddy
o Nick and the Candlestick
o A Birthday Present
o Lady Lazarus
o Fever 103*
o The Arrival of the Bee Box
and
 Poetry - Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
The prescribed poems are:
o Fulbright Scholars
o The Shot
o A Picture of Otto
o Fever
o Red
o The Bee God
Section II – Module B: Critical Study of Literature
20 marks
Attempt Question 2
Allow about 40 minutes for this section
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Your answers will be assessed on how well you:
 demonstrate an informed understanding of the ideas expressed in the text
 evaluate the text’s distinctive language and stylistic qualities
 organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience,
purpose and form
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Question 2

In literature we see our essential selves.

To what extent is this true of the prescribed text you have studied in this module?
The prescribed texts for Section II are:

 Poetry - T S Eliot, T S Eliot: Selected Poems

The prescribed poems are:
o The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
o Preludes
o Rhapsody on a Windy Night
o The Hollow Men
o Journey of the Magi

 Shakespearean Drama - William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part 1

 Prose Fiction - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Section III – Module C: The Craft of Writing
20 marks
Attempt Question 3
Allow about 40 minutes for this section
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Your answers will be assessed on how well you:
 craft language to address the demands of the question
 use language appropriate to audience, purpose and context to deliberately
shape meaning
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Question 3

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert
Einstein

a. Use this quote as a stimulus for an imaginative or discursive piece of writing.

In your response, you must include at least ONE literary device or stylistic feature
that you have explored during your study of a prescribed text in Module C.

(12 marks)

b. Explain how at least ONE of your prescribed texts from Module C has
influenced your writing style in Part (a). Your explanation should include
consideration of the literary device you chose in Part (a).

(8 marks)
The prescribed texts for Section III are:

 Prose Fiction - Kate Chopin, The Awakening

- Elizabeth Harrower, The Fun of the Fair
- Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
- Nam Le, Love and Honour and Pity and Pride
and Compassion and Sacrifice

- Colum McCann, Thirteen Ways of Looking

- Colum McCann, What Time Is It Now, Where
You Are?
- Rohinton Mistry, The Ghost of Firozsha Baag
 Nonfiction - Helen Garner, How to Marry Your Daughters
- Siri Justvedt, Eight Days in a Corset
- George Orwell, Politics and the English
Language
- Zadie Smith, That Crafty Feeling

 Speeches - Margaret Atwood, Spotty-Handed Villainesses

- Geraldine Brooks, A Home in Fiction
- Noel Pearson, Eulogy for Gough Whitlam

 Poetry - Boey Kim Cheng, Stamp Collecting

- Gwen Harwood, Father and Child
- Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of looking at a
Blackbird
 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shallot

 Performance Poetry - Kate Tempest, Picture of a Vacuum