By senior years students should be able to write essays in response to these questions to demonstrate their understanding of the core principles in the study of literature. You should be able to write an essay in response to each of these questions by the end of Year 11 Preliminary course.
1. Literary analysis is the examination of how the component parts of a text contribute to the meaning of the whole. Demonstrate how this applies to a text you have studied.
2. The study of literature is the examination of how writers manipulate language to create an experience for readers. Discuss.
3. In order to enjoy literature a reader needs to be open to ascribing meaning to texts. Discuss.
4. The senior English course teaches how literary forms and features serve functions that contribute to the meaning of texts. Discuss.
5. Writers create texts for specific purposes and employ literary techniques to support those purposes. Discuss.
6. A close study of the various elements of a text and an understanding of the relationship between them serves to clarify a text's meaning. Discuss.
7. In a close reading of text a reader notices patterns and then endows those patterns with meaning. Discuss with reference to a text you have studied.
8. Textual integrity is the unity of a text, and how its coherent use of form and language produces an integrated whole in terms of meaning and value. How is textual integrity demonstrated in the text you have studied.
9. How do the distinctive qualities of a text help shape its meaning?
10. Explain how your prescribed text invites us into a different world and broadens our understanding of human experience?
11. Through the telling and receiving of stories we become more aware of ourselves and our shared human experiences. Explain with references to your studied text.
12. "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." - Joan Didion The White Album. How does this statement apply to the texts you have studied?
13. Effective fiction uses narrative voice to engage the reader's emotions and intellect. To what extent is this true in a text you have studied?
14. Writers use literal and figurative language to express ideas and position readers. How is this employed in a text you have studied?
15. Composers construct texts using representations to portray situations and experiences to position readers. How is this successfully employed in the text you have studied?
16. T.S. Eliot wrote that the tools of the critic are comparison and analysis. How does a close study of the various elements of form, features and function work together to create meaning, and how does this compare between two texts you have studied?
17. "Literature is the history of the human psyche." - Ugo Angelo Canello. How does the text you have studied use characterisation, setting and situations to express ideas about human behaviour?
18. “Culture, when it comes to food, is, of course, a fancy word for your mom.” ― Michael Pollan. How are ideas about family, identity and culture represented in the text you have studied?
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