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