Common Mod Trial

Question 1

Paragraph 1 mnemonic

Answer 1

The locusts chose today

Question 2

Mne - Locusts

Answer 2

The locusts have no king yet all of them go out in ranks

Question 3

Ana - The locusts have no king yet all of them go out in ranks

Answer 3

biblical allusion and malign pestilential imagery to reestablish the western metanarrative as being warped by our binary notions of good and evil

Question 4

Mne - Choices

Answer 4

It was werner who pretended there were no choices

Question 5

Ana - It was werner who pretended there were no choices

Answer 5

Third person omniscient perspective to prove commentary on the perceptions of choice with war narratives and the pressure felt to fall into our binary thoughts. challenges this to reveal the personal agency in defining our actions within war.

Question 6

Mne - today

Answer 6

Not in years. But today. Maybe I did

Question 7

Ana - Not in years. But today. Maybe I did

Answer 7

The repetition of today and the truncated sentences reveals the metacognitive reflection initialised by the intertwining of contrasting narratives, prompting a reconsideration of the individuals perception of self and their motivations in regards to their capacity for self agency.

Question 8

Para 1 Form

Answer 8

Petit Recits
Multiple Perspectives
Parallel Narrative

Question 9

Paragraph 2 Mnemonic

Answer 9

The whelk wakes and wonders

Question 10

Mne - Whelk

Answer 10

She is the whelk. Armoured. Impervious

Question 11

Mne - wakes

Answer 11

I have no choice. I wake up everyday and live my life. Don’t you do the same?

Question 12

Mne - Wonders

Answer 12

The doctors claim that Frederick retains no memories, that his brain maintains only basic function, but there are times she wonders

Question 13

Ana - She is the whelk. Armoured. Impervious

Answer 13

The use of invertebrate imagery in the polysemous motif of the whelk establishes marie’s capacity for resolution and stabilises her disability, granting her the ability to transcend her assumed confines.

Question 14

Ana - I have no choice. I wake up everyday and live my life. Don’t you do the same?

Answer 14

The rhetorical question directly prompts introspection on our individual capacity to choose and catalyses a reflection on our internal motivation and the role our assumed ability has in our actions

Question 15

Ana - The doctors claim Frederick retains no memories, that his brain maintains only basic functions, but there are times she wonders.

Answer 15

The contradicting juxtaposition of the personal understanding of ability in comparison to the exterior perspective demonstrates the warped and underdeveloped understanding of ability within our grand narratives

Question 16

Paragraph 2 Form

Answer 16

Bildungsroman

Question 17

Paragraph 3 Mnemonic

Answer 17

Memories of Etienne and Jutta

Question 18

Mne - Memories

Answer 18

Every hours, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.

Question 19

Mne - Etienne

Answer 19

“There is a chance,” etienne says, “that we will never find out what happened. we have to be prepared for that.”

Question 20

Mne - Jutta

Answer 20

Weeks go by when jutta does not allow herself to think of the war.

Question 21

Ana - Every hours, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.

Answer 21

The euphemism for death reveals the historical distortion of the past by demonstrating history’s transition into storytelling and it’s warping to eventually fit the metanarrative

Question 22

Ana - “There is a chance,” etienne says, “that we will never find out what happened. we have to be prepared for that.”

Answer 22

The use of dialogue provides a retrospective historical awareness of the fallibility of war narratives and demonstrates the loss of information and understanding caused by the transition from history to story.

Question 23

Ana - Weeks go by when jutta does not allow herself to think of the war.

Answer 23

Contrasting with maries memories quote, jutta provides a contrasting characterisation of the impact of wartime narratives by demonstrating the temporal impact that memories and the past has on the sharing of individual human experiences

Question 24

Para 3 Form

Answer 24

Verisimilitude
Epigraph
Postmodern Historical Fiction
Analepsis and Prolepsis