WACE English comprehending, responding and composing: exam-style practice quiz

They mimic the father's routine, so the final sentence reveals the family's exclusion

They create suspense about a dangerous event that is about to happen out on the farm

They show that the narrator admires the father's efficiency and his careful daily habits

They establish a formal, objective tone, like the tone of an official farm report

an appeal to logos, providing statistical evidence for the writer's claim

an appeal to ethos, establishing the writer's credibility and experience

an appeal to pathos, describing the drivers' physical injuries in detail

an appeal to humour, lightening a serious topic for younger readers

It creates distance, so the viewer observes the driver without being addressed at all

It suggests that the driver is unaware of the camera and of being watched

It addresses the viewer directly, inviting them into the lifestyle the car offers

It reduces the salience of the car by drawing all attention to the sunset

a preferred reading

a negotiated reading

an intertextual reading

a resistant reading

Balanced reporting presents both sides equally, so no particular perspective is favoured

Emotive first-person narration makes readers sympathise with the protesters' aims

The report uses a visual layout to make the protest seem peaceful and well organised

Selection and omission present the protesters as a threat, with no voice of their own

conforms to a convention so as to meet the reader's expectations of the genre

creates an intertextual reference to one specific earlier detective novel

subverts a convention to challenge the expectation that order will be restored

shifts the point of view from first person to third person to create distance

Alliteration, creating a pleasant rhythm that makes the scene feel calm and settled

Juxtaposition, creating irony that exposes the gap between advertising and homelessness

Hyperbole, exaggerating the man's situation so readers do not take it seriously

Personification, presenting the billboard as a caring presence watching the man

It places the reader inside the experience, creating immediacy and shared anxiety

It creates an objective, distant view of a character the reader does not get to know

It signals that the narrator is unreliable and that the result has been invented

It shows that the passage is an instruction manual that readers are meant to follow

Opening with a paragraph of biography about the writer's childhood before any analysis

Listing major world events from the decade of publication in the introduction

Linking a novel's bleak ending to anxieties of its time to explain why the writer chose it

Stating the year of publication in the conclusion without connecting it to the text

The film's washed-out palette and long, static shots represent the town as a place where time has stopped

The film is set in a small country town, and many of the most important events in the story happen there

The director was born in a small country town and has spoken about that town in several interviews

There are many different places shown in the film, and each of them is interesting in its own particular way

A story covering a whole family history across fifty years, packed with as many different events as possible

An essay listing ten definitions of silence taken from different dictionaries and encyclopedias

A story written in advance about a sporting grand final, with the word silence added in the final line

A story of a phone call where the pause before an answer is the turning point, told in short, precise scenes

a simile suggesting grief is warm and welcoming to visitors

a metaphor suggesting grief is exhausting and allows no rest

personification suggesting the house itself feels sad

hyperbole suggesting grief is less serious than it seems