Desperate for Module C Practice Questions?
You’ve come to the right place! Here are five Module C: Craft of Writing practice questions for the upcoming HSC Advanced English exam.
Question 1
‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’ - The Tempest, William Shakespeare
Use the quote from The Tempest as the stimulus for a discursive piece that reflects on the human condition.
Question 2
‘Oh! Write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.’ - Jane Austen
(a) Using the above statement as stimulus, write the conclusion of a persuasive, discursive or imaginative text. You must include ONE stylistic feature from a text you have studied in Module C. (12 marks)
(b) Reflect upon the influence of your prescribed texts for Module C in your writing in (a). Justify your selection and use of ONE stylistic feature. (8 marks)
Question 3
I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart. - Vincent van Gogh
Use the statement above as a prompt for a discursive response about creativity and identity.
Question 4
‘We are shaped by the people around us, we are moved by the future we hope for, we find purpose in the places we go.’
(a) Using the above statement as stimulus, write the opening of a persuasive, discursive or imaginative text that explores identity. You must write from the perspective of a character or persona or speaker in one of the prescribed texts you studied for Module C. (12 marks)
(b) Justify the decisions you have made in your writing in (a). Explain how at least one of your prescribed texts for Module C has influenced your writing. (8 marks)
Question 5
‘There is no need for nostalgia and yearning for what might have been.’
(a) Use this line from Pearson’s Eulogy in the closing of a discursive response that focuses on a key or influential moment in social or political history. (10 marks)
(b) Evaluate how the themes of the eulogy extract influenced the way that you have written the closing. (10 marks)