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Practise essay questions on the text your school studies. Texts that are out of copyright can be read here in full; for the others, use your school's copy.

Texts and Human Experiences (prescribed text essay)

  • An Imaginary Life

    David Malouf · prose fiction

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    Practise 2 questions

  • Away

    Michael Gow · drama

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    Practise 2 questions

  • Cold Enough for Snow

    Jessica Au · prose fiction

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    Practise 2 questions

  • Love Poems and Death Threats

    Samuel Wagan Watson · poetry

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    Prescribed poems (7)
    • The Remedy of Butterflies
    • Finn
    • Let’s Talk!
    • El Diablo Highway
    • Blacktracker… Blackwriter… Blacksubject
    • End of Days
    • Addendum

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    Practise 2 questions

  • One Night the Moon

    Rachel Perkins · film

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    Practise 2 questions

  • Question 7

    Richard Flanagan · nonfiction

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    Practise 2 questions

  • Selected Poems

    Gwen Harwood · poetry

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    Prescribed poems (7)
    • The Glass Jar
    • The Violets
    • At Mornington
    • Father and Child, I and II
    • A Valediction
    • Beyond Metaphor
    • The Sharpness of Death

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    Practise 2 questions

  • Selected poems of Rosemary Dobson

    Rosemary Dobson · poetry

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    Prescribed poems (7)
    • Young Girl at a Window
    • Summer’s End
    • Cock Crow
    • A Fine Thing
    • Child of Our Time
    • Piltdown Man
    • Every Man His Own Sculptor

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    Practise 2 questions

  • Short Stories

    Henry Lawson · prose fiction

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    Prescribed parts (5)
    • The Drover’s Wife
    • The Union Buries Its Dead
    • Shooting the Moon
    • Our Pipes
    • The Loaded Dog
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Language, Identity and Culture

  • Contemporary Asian Australian Poets

    Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey and Michelle Cahill (eds) · poetry

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    Practise 4 questions

  • Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah

    Alana Valentine · drama

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    Practise 4 questions

  • Swallow the Air

    Tara June Winch · prose fiction

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    Practise 4 questions

  • The Namesake

    Jhumpa Lahiri · prose fiction

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    Practise 4 questions

  • The Perseverance

    Raymond Antrobus · poetry

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    Practise 4 questions

  • The Quiet Girl

    Colm Bairéad · film

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    Practise 4 questions

Close Study of Literature

  • Arrival

    Denis Villeneuve · film

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    Practise 5 questions

  • Collected Poems

    Carol Ann Duffy · poetry

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    Practise 4 questions

  • Feed

    M. T. Anderson · prose fiction

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    Practise 4 questions

  • Limberlost

    Robbie Arnott · prose fiction

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    Practise 4 questions

  • Much Ado About Nothing

    William Shakespeare · drama

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    Practise 5 questionsRead the text

  • My People

    Oodgeroo Noonuccal · poetry

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    Practise 4 questions