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A quiz on the topic with a focus on Kenneth Slessor's poetry
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What was
William Street
about?
The perils of night-life in a modern city
Challenging perspective and beauty through imagery
An accurate depiction of a suburb in Sydney
A group of friends that end up in all sorts of humorous situations
2
Texts invite the reader to...
see the world differently
ignite new ideas
reflect personally
challenge assumptions
3
What is an intellectual experience?
The sharing of useless trivia
I wonder if anyone bothered to read this far
A process of logical inquiry to acquire knowledge
The haphazard elimination of factual details
4
Texts give insights into...
ants, pests, insidious creatures in human backyards and mansions
apples, pineapples, iceberg lettuce in human diets and cuisines
anomalies, paradoxes, inconsistencies in human behaviour and motivations
aliens, parademons, imps in human adventures and mythologies
5
What does Slessor mean by "the other front" in the final line of the poem?
The narrator's passage back home
The soldier's passage to the next theatre of war
The dead's passage to the afterlife
The seaman's passage back to the ocean
6
What was
Out of Time
about?
A beautiful view of the harbour
A boat race
The ceaseless flow of time
Running late to an appointment
7
The related text we looked at in class together was:
The Lion Man
The Elephant Man
The Hippopotamus Man
The Rhinoceros Man
8
You do
not
need a related text for the exam
False
True
9
What activity expresses and reflects on particular lives and cultures throughout time?
Gesticulating
TikToking
Procrastinating
Storytelling
10
What is a psychological experience?
When a real or imagined moment happens within the mind
When a person goes completely mental
When you stub your toe really hard
When someone thinks they're better than you
11
What is a physical experience?
When somebody predicts your future
When someone can move things with their mind
When something impacts the body or space of an individual
When an individual studies the stars
12
What is imagery?
The positioning or layout of content in a text
The use of language devices to create a picture or experience
The appeal to a responder's sense of sound
The only literary technique I can remember
13
When a composer appeals to multiple senses to create an image
Synthesizer
Synthesis
Synchronous
Synaesthesia
14
What was
Beach Burial
about?
The brutality and horror of war
The honour and glory of war
The action and thrill of war
The violence and gore of war
15
A satire is:
The use of humour to expose and criticise people's stupidity or vices
When you get a flat tyre on a Saturday
How you get really sleepy when in a seated position
A dramatic retelling of a significant historical event
16
Intertextuality is...
not polite to ask someone about at the dinner table
where a book is adapted into a film
when you use a quotation in your response
the shaping of a text's meaning by another text
17
What is the Common Module
The module that is very communicable
The module that all levels of English complete
The module written by a famous rapper
The module that is a bit boring
18
Who was the composer of the prescribed collection of poems?
Rachel Perkins
Mark Haddon
Ray Bradbury
Kenneth Slessor
19
What is a spiritual experience?
A connection, feeling or appreciation of the divine
Those haunted houses with all the ghosts and stuff
I say again, that first cup of coffee in the morning
When you're made to go to church on Sunday
20
What was
Wild Grapes
about?
The impact of time
Solving a crime
The Winery Walkabout
Fruit picking
21
What was
Gulliver
about?
The prison of life and the modern world
An easily mislead person
Some giant dude getting tied up
A loud bird that ate all the chips
22
What is an emotional experience?
A situation that stirs positive or negative feelings
That first cup of coffee in the morning
When you suffer from a painful injury
Seeing your friend fall over accidentally
23
What was
Vesper-Song of the Reverend Samuel Marsden
about?
Don't know, the title was so long I didn't bother to read it
An uplifting musical about a priest
A case study of hypocrisy and the misuse of power
The brutality inflicted upon convicts in colonial Australia
24
You examine how texts represent...
human quibbles and exaggerations
human qualities and emotions
human quantities and expansion
human queries and explanations
25
An Elizabethan sonnet's rhyming scheme is:
AABBCCDDEEFFGG
ABCDABCDABCDEE
ABABCDCDEFEFGG
ABCDEFGHIJKLMN
