ATAR English: Unit 2 Exam Revision

Comprehending (short answer responses)

Remember to discuss techniques and conventions relevant to the text type.
1. Discuss how gender has been represented. (Image: Spiderman/ Narrative: Pride
and Prejudice Chapter 1 or 8/ Article: Caitlyn Jenner)
2. Discuss how a character has been constructed. (Narrative: Jane Eyre/ Pride and
Prejudice Chapter 1 or 8/ Image: Spiderman)
3. Discuss how place has been represented. (Image: Beach/ Narrative: Jane Eyre/
Preide and Prejudice Chapter 1 or 8/ Expository: Stoking of Terrorist Fears Article)
4. Explain the construction of voice. (Narrative: Jane Eyre)
5. How has a particular ideology been represented? (Image: Capitalism/ Expository:
Far Right Terrorism Threat)
6. Explain how a value, belief or attitude has been presented. (Expository: Black
Bodies, Caitlyn Jenner or either terrorist article/ Narrative: The Given (poem), 42
Days Evaristo, 42 Days Masters, Pride and Prejudice Chapter 1 or 8, Jane Eyre/
Image: Capitalism, Beach or Spiderman)
7. Discuss how readers are positioned to respond in a particular way. (Any text)
8. Compare how the same how idea has been represented in two texts. (Image:
Capitalism/ Narrative: Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice Chapter 1 or 8, 42 Days
Evaristo/ Expository: Stoking of Terrorist Fears)
9. Compare the representation of the same issue in two texts. (See list above)
10. Compare the representation of gender in two texts. (Image: Beach or Spiderman/
Narrative: Pride and Prejudice Chapter 1 or 8, Jane Eyre/ Expository: Caitlyn Jenner
or Black Bodies)
11. Compare the construction of place in two texts. (Image: Beach/ Expository: Far
Right Terrorism)
12. Discuss the role of setting in two texts. (Narrative: Jane Eyre or 42 Days Masters/
Image: Beaches or Spiderman)

Responding (essay response with reference to a studied text)

Remember to break the question down, to consciously decide how best to structure your
essay, and to plan before you begin writing. Also remember that you must discuss
techniques and conventions in a responding question (discuss the mise en scene as
opposed to individual techniques if your reference text is multimodal).
1. Explain how a text uses generic conventions to convey ideas about topics, events or
people.
2. Discuss how the structural features and language conventions used by an author
have shaped your understanding of an issue or event.
3. How has at least one text you have studied positioned you to respond to the
representation of either people or settings?
4. With reference to a written text you have studied, explain how you have been
positioned to respond to an idea or issue.
5. Discuss the factors that influenced your response to the group/s represented in two
texts you have studied (change to one if doing short answer).
6. Explain how a text represents particular ideas about the world.
7. Discuss how place has been represented in two texts you have studied (change to
one if doing short answer)
8. Discuss how a text challenges or subverts dominant attitudes towards a topic or
issue.
9. Discuss how a text you have studied persuades you to think about a topic in
particular ways.

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10. Discuss the ways in which a written text challenges your ideas about a particular
subject.
11. Discuss how relationships are represented in a text you have studied.
12. Explain how your knowledge of context has influenced your response to a text.
13. Explain how knowledge of context has shaped your reading of a text.
14. Present a justified reading of a text.
15. Discuss how values are promoted and/or challenged in a text you have studied.
16. Discuss the attitudes and ideas that are promoted in a text you have studied.
17. Explain how context has shaped your response to the ideas presented in a text you
have studied.
18. Discuss how gender is represented in a text you have studied.
19. Explore the ways in which a text makes sense of the ways that people behave.
20. Explore the effects of a narrators persona in a text you have studied.
Ensure that you revise:
Structural, stylistic and language
features in written texts
Multimodal semiotic systems
Generic conventions
Context
Values

Attitudes
Beliefs
Representations
Response
Readings
Ideas

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Composing (writing)
Respond to the following prompts. Practise both expository and creative writing.
1. Write a persuasive speech that addresses a topical issue.
2. Write the beginning of a narrative in response to the following prompt: Jasmine
isnt only a herb, its also the name of a girl who changed my life.
3. Create a text that engages with the following prompt: World War II has nothing on
my powers of destruction.
4. Create a text that utilises two opposing voices.
5. Write a narrative in which the plot is driven by setting.
6. Create a text using one of the following image as a prompt:

Ensure that you:

Use language, stylistic and structural features suitable to your text type.
Use generic conventions suitable to the text type.
Manipulate language and conventions for effect and to suit purpose.
Demonstrate accuracy in your writing (functional literacy syntax, punctuation,
capitalisation, spelling, paragraphing etc)
Create a fluent text that engages closely with the prompt.
Your ability to write well, use generic conventions and manipulate language is being
assessed.