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Advanced English Module C Practice Questions

Question 1: (a) Choose a character from ONE of your prescribed texts from Modules A, B, or C. Express the thought processes of this character by exploring a moment of tension in the text from an alternative point of view.

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(b) Justify the creative decisions that you have made in your writing in part (a).

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Question 2: "[Man] is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have

been the glory of his past. The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail." - William Faulkner’s 1949 Nobel Prize acceptance speech (a) Use the above extract as a stimulus for a piece of discursive, persuasive, or imaginative writing.

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(b) Justify the decisions that you have made in your writing in part (a).

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Question 3: "Reading well means examining our own worldview, figuring out what it’s made of, and being able to initiate and accept change in it." - Natasha Moore

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Use this quotation as a stimulus for a piece of discursive, persuasive or imaginative writing that expresses your perspective about a significant concern or idea that you have engaged with in ONE of your prescribed texts from Modules A, B, or C.

Part A Choose a character from one of your electives and situate him/her in a challenging moment which undermines a deeply held belief. (12 marks)

Part B Justify your choices from Part A. (8 marks)

Our memories and our present day hopes and desires are the authors of each person's narrative. a. Using the above statement as a stimulus, write the opening of a persuasive, discursive or imaginative text. You must write from the perspective of a character or persona or speaker in ONE of the prescribed texts your 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)

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