Year 11 English ATAR Course Examination 2022 Flashcards

A set of vocabulary terms and key concepts derived from the 2022 Year 11 English ATAR Semester Two Examination paper and its associated texts.

ETAWA

The English Teachers Association of Western Australia, the organization associated with the 2022 Year 11 English ATAR course examination.

Great Southern Reef

An $8,100km$ stretch of coastline extending from Kalbarri to northern NSW, as discussed in Text 1.

Stingarees

Marine animals mentioned in Text 1 that leave bowl-shaped indentations on the sandy bottom of the ocean.

Greens Pool: In praise of wild swimming

An essay by Nicole Hodgson published in Westerly Online Special Issue 10, used as Text 1 in the examination.

Amniotic fluid of the ocean

A metaphor used by Nicole Hodgson to describe the feeling of absolute safety and being enveloped in water at Greens Pool.

Mercurial

A descriptor used for the ocean in Text 1, indicating she can be unpredictable and leave swimmers spinning in the wake of her changes.

Nutcracker Rock

A specific location mentioned in Nicole Hodgson's essay where a swimmer might wait for the surge to ease to get through to Elephant Rocks.

Jarrad Seng

The Australian photographer who took the black and white image (Text 3) of Jaimen Hudson with his wife and child.

Section One: Comprehending

The portion of the exam worth 30 marks requiring analysis of unseen written and visual texts in approximately $200$-$300$ words per response.

Section Two: Responding

A section worth 40 marks where students must answer one question demonstrating analytical and critical thinking regarding studied texts.

Section Three: Composing

A section worth 30 marks requiring students to demonstrate writing skills by choosing an appropriate form, audience, context, and purpose.

Language features

Elements used in Text 1 to explore the sense of tension between human and ocean, specifically tested in Question 1.

Visual conventions

Techniques used in Text 3 to construct a representation of people, specifically analyzed in Question 2.

Generic conventions

Structural and stylistic elements of a genre used to shape a viewer's view of an issue or impact an audience.

Rhetorical devices

Tools used within a text to achieve a specific purpose, which students are asked to evaluate in Question 6.

Stylistic choices

The specific selection of language and structural elements used by an author to reveal a particular attitude.

Interpretive text

A form of writing requested in Question 13 to explore the theme of possibility based on a quote by Nelson Mandela.

Imaginative text

A form of writing requested in Question 14 that incorporates elements of setting from a provided image.

Stitches Through Time

A text by Sarah Ross from 'After Australia' (edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad) acknowledged as Text 2 in the examination.