2023 HSC English Adv Paper 2+20231024

NSW Education Standards Authority
2023 HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION
English Advanced
Paper 2 — Modules
General • Reading time – 5 minutes

Instructions • Working time – 2 hours
• Write using black pen
Total marks: Section I – 20 marks (pages 2–4)

60 • Attempt Question 1
• Allow about 40 minutes for this section
Section II – 20 marks (pages 5–6)

• Attempt Question 2
Section III – 20 marks (page 7)

• Attempt Question 3
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Section I — Module A: Textual Conversations
20 marks
Attempt Question 1
Allow about 40 minutes for this section
Answer the question on pages 2–8 of the Paper 2 Writing Booklet. Extra writing booklets are
available.
Your answer will be assessed on how well you:

● demonstrate understanding of how composers are influenced by another text’s
concepts and values
● evaluate the relationships between texts and contexts
● organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose
and form
Question 1 (20 marks)
When we engage with a text, the question we must ask ourselves is, ‘What is this text really
about?’
Consider the pair of prescribed texts that you have studied in Module A. To what extent does
your engagement with the later text make you ask this question about the earlier text?
In your response, make close reference to your prescribed texts.
The Module A prescribed texts are listed on pages 3 and 4.
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The Module A prescribed texts are:
• Shakespearean Drama and Film

– William Shakespeare, King Richard III
and
– Al Pacino, Looking for Richard
• Prose Fiction and Film

– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
and
– Stephen Daldry, The Hours
• Prose Fiction and Prose Fiction

– Albert Camus, The Stranger
and
– Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation
• Poetry and Drama

– John Donne, John Donne: A Selection of His Poetry
The prescribed poems are:
* The Sunne Rising
* The Apparition
* A Valediction: forbidding mourning
* This is my playes last scene
* At the round earths imagin’d corners
* If poysonous mineralls
* Death be not proud
* Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse
and
– Margaret Edson, W;t
Module A prescribed texts continue on page 4
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The Module A prescribed texts (continued)
• Poetry and Film

– John Keats, The Complete Poems
* La Belle Dame sans Merci
* To Autumn
* Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art
* Ode to a Nightingale
* Ode on a Grecian Urn
* When I have fears that I may cease to be
* The Eve of St Agnes, XXIII
and
– Jane Campion, Bright Star
• Poetry and Poetry

– Sylvia Plath, Ariel
* Daddy
* Nick and the Candlestick
* A Birthday Present
* Lady Lazarus
* Fever 103°
* The Arrival of the Bee Box
and
– Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
* Fulbright Scholars
* The Shot
* A Picture of Otto
* Fever
* Red
* The Bee God
• Shakespearean Drama and Prose Fiction

– William Shakespeare, The Tempest
and
– Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
End of Section I
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Section II — Module B: Critical Study of Literature
20 marks
Attempt Questions 2
Answer the question on pages 10–16 of the Paper 2 Writing Booklet. Extra writing booklets
are available.

● demonstrate an informed understanding of the ideas expressed in the text
● evaluate the text’s distinctive language and stylistic qualities
● organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose
and form
Evaluate how your personal and intellectual engagement with your prescribed text has been
intensified by its construction.
In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text.
The Module B prescribed texts are listed on page 6.
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The Module B prescribed texts are:
• Prose Fiction – Jane Austen, Emma

– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
– Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
• Poetry – T S Eliot, T S Eliot: Selected Poems

* The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
* Preludes
* Rhapsody on a Windy Night
* The Hollow Men
* Journey of the Magi
– David Malouf, Earth Hour

* Aquarius
* Radiance
* Ladybird
* A Recollection of Starlings: Rome ’84
* Eternal Moment at Poggia Madonna
* Towards Midnight
* Earth Hour
* Aquarius II
• Drama – Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House

– Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
• Nonfiction – Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes

– Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
• Film – George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck
• Media – Gillian Armstrong, Unfolding Florence
• Shakespearean – William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1

Drama
End of Section II
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Section III — Module C: The Craft of Writing
20 marks
Attempt Question 3
Answer the question on pages 18–24 of the Paper 2 Writing Booklet. Extra writing booklets
are available.

• craft language to address the demands of the question
• use language appropriate to audience, purpose and context to deliberately shape
meaning
In the middle of the night, around four am, sometimes/often/but not

always, a bird sings a four-note song at intervals. It doesn’t wake me up
but when I lie there I hear it and imagine it is letting all the other birds
and the rest of us know that all is well. Morning is coming.
STEPHANIE RADOK
Under the Bed
Reproduced by permission of
Giramondo Publishing Company
(a) Use this extract as the stimulus for an imaginative or discursive piece of writing 12
that explores the hope that comes with anticipation.
(b) Justify how the stylistic choices you have made in part (a) demonstrate the hope 8
that comes with anticipation. In your response, make detailed reference to your
writing in part (a).
End of paper
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2023 HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION

General • Reading time – 5 minutes

Total marks: Section I – 20 marks (pages 2–4)

Section II – 20 marks (pages 5–6)

Section III – 20 marks (page 7)

Your answer will be assessed on how well you:

Question 1 (20 marks)

In your response, make close reference to your prescribed texts.

The Module A prescribed texts are listed on pages 3 and 4.

• Shakespearean Drama and Film

• Prose Fiction and Film

• Prose Fiction and Prose Fiction

• Poetry and Drama

Module A prescribed texts continue on page 4

• Poetry and Film

• Poetry and Poetry

• Shakespearean Drama and Prose Fiction

Your answer will be assessed on how well you:

Question 2 (20 marks)

In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text.

The Module B prescribed texts are listed on page 6.

• Prose Fiction – Jane Austen, Emma

• Poetry – T S Eliot, T S Eliot: Selected Poems

– David Malouf, Earth Hour

• Drama – Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House

• Nonfiction – Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes

• Film – George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck

• Media – Gillian Armstrong, Unfolding Florence

• Shakespearean – William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1

Your answer will be assessed on how well you:

Question 3 (20 marks)

In the middle of the night, around four am, sometimes/often/but not

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