Part A: Extended Response (10 marks)
Your task is to use the quote below to compose an extended discursive response that demonstrates how figurative language can be used for a range of purposes; to express insights, evoke emotion, shape a perspective or share an aesthetic vision to the audience
.As a guide, you must use the prescribed text below as a model and stimulus for the development of your own ideas and written expression.
Quote: “Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.” – Neil Gaiman
Text: George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
Part B: Reflection (15 Marks)
Evaluate how your prescribed text (George Orwell, Politics and the English Language)
has influenced the way you have crafted your response in Part A.
Marking Criteria
Part A
Composes a skilful and refined response, demonstrating careful consideration of and effective use of language to convey ideas to explore key ideas from the stimulus with precision. Effectively transfers ideas into new and different contexts by perceptively applying correct form, features and structures suitable to the discursive response. Skilfully draws upon knowledge and understanding of one or more prescribed texts to inspire an original sustained response suitable to the audience and purpose.
Part B
Purposefully and skilfully evaluates the effects of significant stylistic or authorial choices from the prescribed text.
Skilfully constructs a sustained response and effectively justifies why these choices
conveyed ideas using relevant textual references.
Purposefully reflects on the successes and/or challenges of the writing process and
effectively explains how the sustained response achieves its intended purpose.
