Extended+text+practice+questions

Choose ONE topic. Write an essay of AT LEAST 300 words for your answer. Make sure you answer the topic fully. Support your discussion with specific evidence from the text.


 * 2009**

1. Readers are often challenged by controversial or difficult issues or ideas. Analyse how an issue or idea in a text you have studied challenged you to alter or develop your ideas. 2. Readers will often think about characters long after a text has been finished. Analyse how the writer made a character or characters memorable for you in a text you have studied. 3. Readers often respond to texts by comparing the time and place in which the text is set with their own society. Analyse how the setting of a text you have studied caused you to examine aspects of your own society. 4. Readers need to make a connection with a text for the reading experience to be satisfactory. Analyse how your experience of reading a text you have studied was either satisfying or unsatisfying. 5. Many writers set out to explore the nature of human experiences, such as love, grief, revenge, or racism. Analyse how a text you have studied explores an aspect of human experience. 6. The structure of a text is important in controlling the rise and fall in tension. Analyse how a text you have studied has been structured to achieve impact


 * 2008**

1. Analyse how the beginning of the text created a strong impression of at least ONE character or individual. 2. Analyse how at least ONE setting helped develop an important theme. 3. Analyse how surprise and / or humour helped the writer communicate an important message. 4. Analyse how the writer created impact in ONE important section. 5. Analyse how internal and / or external conflict were important to the text. Note: “internal conflict” means conflict within a character / individual, and “external conflict” means conflict between different characters / individuals or groups. 6. Analyse how the writer influenced you to think differently about an important idea or issue.