2023 TRIAL HIGH SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION
English Advanced
Paper 2 – Modules
General Instructions ● Reading time - 5 minutes
● Working time – 2 hours
● Write using blue or black pen
Total Marks: 60 Section I – 20 Marks
● Attempt Question 1
● Allow about 40 minutes for this section
Section II – 20 Marks
● Attempt Question 2
● Allow about 40 minutes for this section
Section III – 20 Marks
● Attempt Question 3
● Allow about 40 minutes for this section
Section I — Module A: Textual Conversations
20 marks
Attempt Question 1
Allow about 40 minutes for this section
Answer the question in the Paper 2 Writing Booklet. Extra writing booklets are available.
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Your answer will be assessed on how well you:
● demonstrate understanding of how composers are influenced by another text’s
concepts and values
● evaluate the relationships between texts and contexts
● organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience,
purpose and form
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Question 1 (20 marks)
'Literature always tells the same stories. What is important is the way the
narratives are said.'
Analyse the way in which key ideas can be reimagined within textual
conversations. In your response, make close reference to the quotation and the pair
of prescribed texts that you have studied in Module A.
The prescribed texts are:
● Shakespearean Drama and Prose Fiction
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest
and
- Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
Or
● Poetry and Drama
– John Donne, John Donne: A Selection of His Poetry
The prescribed poems are:
* The Sunne Rising
* The Apparition
* A Valediction: forbidding mourning
* This is my playes last scene
* At the round earths imagin’d corners
* If poysonous mineralls
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* Death be not proud
* Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse
and
– Margaret Edson, W;t
End of Question 1
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Section II — Module B: Critical Study of Literature
20 marks
Attempt Question 2
Allow about 40 minutes for this section
Begin a new writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available.
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Your answer will be assessed on how well you:
● demonstrate an informed understanding of the ideas expressed in the text
● evaluate the text’s distinctive language and stylistic qualities
● organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience,
purpose and form
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Question 2 (20 marks)
Poetry: T S Eliot, T S Eliot: Selected Poems
‘T. S. Eliot’s unique voice allows his audience to recognise the vulnerable nature of
humanity.’
Critically analyse to what extent this view aligns with your understanding of at least
two of Eliot’s poems.
In your response, make close reference to at least TWO prescribed poems.
The prescribed poems are:
* The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
* Preludes
* Rhapsody on a Windy Night
* The Hollow Men
* Journey of the Magi
Or
ShakespeareanDrama William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1
‘Perhaps those who are best suited to lead are those who have never sought to’.
Critically analyse to what extent this view aligns with your understanding of King
Henry IV, Part 1?
In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.
End of Question 2
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Section III — Module C: The Craft of Writing
20 marks
Attempt Question 3
Allow about 40 minutes for this section
Begin a new writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available.
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Your answer will be assessed on how well you:
● craft language to address the demands of the question
● use language appropriate to audience, purpose and context to deliberately shape
meaning
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Question 3 (20 marks)
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a. Compose a piece of imaginative writing inspired by the stimulus above. Your
response should include an internal conflict, and demonstrate elements of
deliberate crafting.
(15 marks)
b. Evaluate how ONE technique used by a composer of a Module C text has
impacted your writing, and the creation of inner turmoil in part (a).
(5 marks)
End of Question 3
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