PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR COMPREHENDING QUESTIONS

Text One
One special day a day for all by Andrea Burns is a comment article or an interpretative text.

1. Discuss how structure and stylistic choices shape your response to the text.
2. Identify three ways the writer shapes an attitude to Australia Day.
3. Identify three stylistic elements that shape your response to Australia society.

Text Two
Mateship by Tom Keneally is an essay or an interpretative text.
1. Identify three ways that this text conforms to your expectation of an interpretative
text.
2. Identify three stylistic elements used to shape your response.
3. Explain how the context of the writer has shaped the text.
4. Identify three techniques used by the writer to influence your view of identity.

Text Three
Diversity breeds a stronger identity is a non-fiction text or an interpretative text.

1. Identify three ways that the writer shapes your response to an understanding of
identity.
2. Identify three techniques used by the writer to engage you in a discussion about
identity.
3. Explain the ideas that are explored about identity in this text.

Text Four
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave a fiction text from the opening of a novel.
1. Discuss three ways that this texts meets your expectation of the opening of a short
story.
2. Discuss how language, structural and stylistic choices are used by the writer to shape
your response.
3. Identify how specific language features have shaped your attitude to the character.

COMPARISON
1. Compare the ways that two texts might appeal to a particular audience.

2. Compare how the context of Text One and Text Two have influenced your response.

3. Compare how stylistic features used by both writers have influenced your response.
4. Compare how two conventions are used in Text and Text to construct meaning.

5. Compare and construct Text and Text explaining how they use different
conventions, to present ideas about identity or Australian society.