PAPER ONE EXAM DISCUSSION!

[rachelbonic]

Looked without seeing looks a bit like an idiom. But many quotes carry multiple techniques on them.

i said it was a paradox whoops

[RuiAce]

i said it was a paradox whoops

I was thinking it could be a paradox as well.

[AFix]

Text One: 
Colloquial language -> sense of intimacy w/ his surroundings and pleasure assocaited with emotional sense of belonging

Text Two:
Contrast between the small boy and big whale -> discovery provokes a sense of curiosity and he draws in his sketch pad
Contrast between his perception of the whale and fathers boat -> provokes renewed perception as he sees life in a "pattern" now

Text Three: 
Alliteration of 'cool celestial' provides his view of the night sky
List of the stars (forgot them) allows audience to witness his discoveries
Metaphor of  braille of the skies allows us to sese his constant appreciation of the night sky and wonder as he looks into it

[Question] Four:
Simile - of 'like litter' provokes an audience to gain insight on persona's view of the environment around her
Disconnected sentence structure of "They were...  made of something" - conveys the persona's inability to comprehend what is around her
Personification of the "fire" being "alive" allows us to see the signifiance of her apprecation of the environment

I feel like I just bullshitted everything tbh rIP

[rachelbonic]

I was thinking it could be a paradox as well.

oh excellente!!!!

[elysepopplewell]

Text Two:
Contrast between the small boy and big whale -> discovery provokes a sense of curiosity and he draws in his sketch pad
Contrast between his perception of the whale and fathers boat -> provokes renewed perception as he sees life in a "pattern" now

That's great! I didn't pick that up - the sizes. Excellent work!!

[angela99]

creative was HORRIBLE for me
i used the location metaphorically so that it fit with my actually location
i said my location felt AS THOUGH i was standing, looking into the horrizon and at the stars, but wasnt actually

[jakesilove]

creative was HORRIBLE for me
i used the location metaphorically so that it fit with my actually location
i said my location felt AS THOUGH i was standing, looking into the horrizon and at the stars, but wasnt actually

That's totally fine! Probably a more creative use of the stimulus than just physically being there and describing the scene

[mmmm675]

I used the creative writing stimulus metaphorically - does that work?

[Lauradf36]

Short answer was a struggle... creative I was like wtf I have to change my whole thing?? aaahhhh

and then I didn't but I just incorporated it....

essay was SWEET

[tahmina]

i hated all of them, my whole year just walked out and said what was that ? it was pretty difficult  especially within that a time frame ! argh -

[aimbotted]

oh boy, the essay wasn't that bad

it was the short answers that really messed me up

the creative was terrible too, my story didn't mould into any of those so i had to make a new one up on the spot, o wells band 3 it is

[ml125]

I feel like I just bullshitted everything tbh rIP

Feels man ;n; S o  m u c h  b s

[joey9911]

I was so happy to see that the techniques you posted for the short answers were the EXACT same ones I mentioned in my responses! (E.g. Enjambment, ellipsis, imagery, etc.)

As a Standard English student, I found the exam pretty good!

I followed the recommended time for every section.

- Short answers I found were pretty decent (I've never seen a 4 mark short answer question before though xD)
- The creative piece is the only piece of text that I memorised for this whole English course (I improvise my essays), and was super pleased to see that my creative writing fit perfectly with one of the images (The guy sitting alone holding an umbrella with the storm above him)
- The essay question this year was easier to understand than the 2015 essay question (IMO). However, I was super anxious that I might run out of time for this essay because I was hoping to leave more time for this section (I ended up following the 40 minute recommendation), so I left out a quote on my RT, and therefore, had to change my essay structure a little bit

Ultimately, I did pretty good :')

[joey9911]

Damn, the ATARNotes site was down for a good 15 minutes... high volume of users at one time

[RuiAce]

Damn, the ATARNotes site was down for a good 15 minutes... high volume of users at one time

Talk about traffic right