English Paper 1

Question 1

Give Examples of Human Experince

Answer 1

Emotions
- Sadness
- Greif
- Angry

Thoughts
- Questions
- Puzzleness
- Regret

Conflict
Love and freindship
Death and grief

Question 2

What is an anomaly

Answer 2

Something that deviates from what is standared, normal or expected

Question 3

What is a paradox

Answer 3

A figure of speech that seems to contridict itslef, but contains some reason of truth behind it. e.g save money by saving it

Question 4

what is an inconsistencies

Answer 4

The fact of containing some ideas, statements, areguments that do not agree with others.

Question 5

What are the two Poems for kenneth Slessor

Answer 5

1. Gulliver
2. Wild Grapes

Question 6

What is Gulliver about? what is the human expeirnce

Answer 6

A dramatic monologue, expression of fustration and despair. In terms of human experince, Gulliver becomes the symbol of the ties that imprison the human body, the limits of the body and the fustration the persona has for it

Main Human experince showed through this poem is
- Fustration
- Helplessness
- lack of Control

Question 7

How is Gulliver an individual or collective expeirence

Answer 7

Individual
- Can be individual, because it is ones body and mind. And it is the singular personas ideas about the human body

Collective
- Collective can also be experienced because every human has their own body, so everyone is experincing the same physical challenges.

Question 8

How is anomilies, paradoxies and inconsistincies shown throughout the poem

Answer 8

Anomilies and inconsistencies
- Sence of Nihilisim

Paradoxies
- Gulliver is unable to move but all his threats are about movement
- At the end the narrator wants to kill himself, but in doing so will kill his consiousness.

Question 9

What are the Quotes for Gulliver

Answer 9

“Hundred ropes of nerve and bone” - Metaphor
- A reference to Gulliver being tied down by the tiny people in the book Gulliver travels
- Is a clear way of saying that we are prisoneirs of tiny versions of ourselves, in our minds that make us obssess over our insecurities.

“For Gods Sake, call the hangman” - Symbolism
- The paradoxical question is answered with this in reference to the only freedom from the pains of the human expeirence is death

Question 10

What the living fuck is wild Grapes about

Answer 10

Describing the memoirs of a loved one with great reference to an old orchard.

Question 11

What is the human experince being showed

Answer 11

Fustration
Loss
Helplessness
Despair

Question 12

Individual or collective experince

Answer 12

• both. Personal, through the singular persons memory of isebella, it is his thoughts and memoirs of her. He also makes refernce to a specific orchard
• collective. through everyone feeling loss at some point in their lives. And the people will always have memories of the loved one with them.

Question 13

Any anomilies, paradoxies and inconsistencies

Answer 13

Anomilies= The Grapes are being described as misplaced like the girl herself.

Paradoxicals = “Harsh sweetness” - A gentleness which is simultainesly groting

Inconsistencies = The inconsistesies of life

“Kissed here, killed here”

Question 14

Ant technquies at all love? for wild grapes

Answer 14

“Harsh Sweetness” - Oxymoron and paradoxical imagery.
- IT captures the personas feelings of the girl, how sweet to remeber but harsh in the reality that she is no longer there. Also makes refernce to the grapes

“Kissed here, or killed here” - Juxtiposition
- Makes the audience understand how could something be so different become so blurred. Conveys the inconsistencies of life.

Question 15

what is my other related Text

Answer 15

Happiness by Steve Cutts

Question 16

What is the human experince shown through Happiness

Answer 16

Greed
Dilusion
Helplessness
life

Question 17

Is it collective or individual experince

Answer 17

Both. Can be ones viewed happiness and the thoughts of Goods. Also collective because majority of the population is doing exactly what the rats displayed in the film are doing.

Question 18

What are the anomilies, paradoxies and inconsistencies of Happiness

Answer 18

Anomilies
- The fact that rats are acting like humans

Paradox
- The fact that the purpose of the film is to find happiness but it really cannot be found and has to really be created

Inconsistencies
- The exaggerated inconsistencies of the shopping lifestyle

Question 19

What are the techniques used in Happiness

Answer 19

Ambiguity - The first scene is set in a crowded subway station where the sign show the way for “nowhere”. But the rats are still going and coming and can be interpretted as life.

Ambiguity is a method of storytelling in which writers purposefully write in a vague or ambiguous manner to add a layer of complexity to a piece.

“Absolute Happiness” - Metaphor

Anthropomorphizing
- Means attributing human qualities to non human things such as animals or objects.