Centre Number Student Number CATHOLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION OF NEW SOUTH WALES 2009 TRIAL HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION English (Advanced) Paper 2 - Modules Morning Session Tuesday‚ 11 August 2009 Total marks - 60 Pages 2-4 General Instructions • Reading time - 5 minutes • Working time - 2 hours • • Write using blue or black pen Write your Centre Number and Student Number at the top of this page Attempt ONE question from Questions 3-7 Allow about 40 minutes for this section
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on memories of his childhood‚ growing up on a farm in the Irish countryside. Here he recalls the annual experience of picking wild fruit in late summer. Heaney uses assonance in his phrase ’glossy purple clot’ to describe the first blackberry that ripened and stood out from others pictured with the simile as being still ’hard as a knot’. Heaney compares the taste of the first ripe berry to the sweetness of ’thickened wine’. He uses the metaphor ’summer’s blood’ to express the redness of the juice
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common as would be expected. When Beowulf is first introduced to the reader‚ he is described as being the mightiest man in Geatland‚ “There was no one else like him alive. In his day‚ he was the mightiest man on earth‚ high-born and powerful‚” (Heaney 15). Odysseus could be described very similarly‚ the mightiest man in Greece and also the smartest man in Greece. Also‚ the two of them are both on great quests‚ Beowulf to defeat Grendel and Odysseus to return home and reclaim his wife‚ Penelope
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Gender role is one of the typical topics that literature has described all time‚ from 8th century Old English literature like “Beowulf” (translated version by Seamus Heaney) to 18th century modern English literature like” Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen. Both authors are precise and sharp observers of the society’s gender stereotype at their times; and they were able to denounce that practice in their fiction stories by the reconstruction of the whole society with all types of character in their
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how much she still think about them. Especially when it comes to the son’s diseases – it is something she is very concerned with. Her main concern is whether she and her husband had something to do with his condition. “Were they to blame‚ she and Seamus‚ and in what way‚ for the fact that their twenty-year-old son whom she was driving home from the hospital had spent the last seven months there suffering from silence‚ as she called it; the doctors called it depression”[1] Mary searches her memory
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“Mother of the Groom”-Heaney ’Mother of the Groom’ by Heaney is a poem about the feelings‚ thoughts and memories that the groom’s mother feels on her son’s wedding day. The poem displays the sadness‚ sense of loss‚ and shock that a mother commonly goes through when she “loses” her son in marriage. The mother thinks back to the days when her son was a baby. The mother remembers washing the baby’s “glistening” back‚ which symbioses the beauty she saw in her son. The baby’s “glistening back” is also
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while Achilles’s a negative. In other words‚ along with Beowulf’s pride comes a sense of comitatus because he fulfills his promises to the Danish king‚ Hrothgar‚ “We have gone through with a glorious [endeavor] and been much favored in this fight…” (Heaney 65). On the contrary‚ Achilles does not pledge allegiance to anyone in particular. Therefore‚ his pride becomes misconstrued into a negative attribute‚ rather than positive Achilles’s pride and stubbornness causes the Trojan War due to
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people emigrated – many to America. The first section of the poem is written in alternately rhymed quatrains that describe a rural scene of potato digging that is clearly in progress much later than a similar scene around the time of the famine. Heaney describes a “mechanical digger” that “wrecks the drill”. Already we ain the machine age and there is a sense that it is destructive. Humans are presented as insects who “swarm in behind”‚ having to “stoop to fill / Wicker creels”. People seem obeisant
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ballads as well as some of his own songs. A good bit of his original music was directed to the trials of the working class. The second act I saw was Seamus Kennedy. Seamus was also a solo singer‚ song writer who had come from Belfast Northern Ireland. I was interested in that because one of my favorite writers‚ C.S. Lewis grew up in Belfast. Seamus was a big personality on stage and would often make the crowd interact with his songs. The third and final group I saw was called the Driscoll School
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pregnancy was noted affecting approximately the distal half of the fallopian tube. Following this a Heaney clamp was placed in the mesosalpinx and another curved Heaney clamp was placed in the proximal aspect of the left fallopian tube beyond the area of the ectopic pregnancy. A partial salpingectomy was then performed‚ removing the portion of the left fallopian tube containing the ectopic pregnancy. Heaney clamps were then replaced with suture No. 1 Vicryl. Hemostasis was checked again and no bleeding
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