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    SO - How'd the 04-erz do??

    49 exam mark hsc mark of 47. assessment mark dragged me down.
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    Ext 2 - A Few Q's

    you wanna know what people did yeah? year 11 biology ancient english extension english maths extension maths french cont year 12 dropped ext maths picked up ext 2 english so that's 12 units all up.
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    The Literary Acquisition Thread

    cities of the red knight - burroughs yayayayayay. I'm going to buy one book per week now that I have found a good bookshop.
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    Beat Literature

    Anyone interested in literature from the Beat Era (the most prevalent literature from here being "howl" by Ginsberg and Kerouac's "on the road")? I am currently reading Burrough's cities of the red knight, after finding a fabulous bookstore which has a whole cabinet of beat literature.
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    Sexual Preferences!

    que sera sera
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    Blood journals

    hahaha don't be so self-assured buddy. The first thing to know about writing is that it never goes exactly to plan. And ext 2 is about the development of a major work over a year - with interaction and guidance from others -----> change to original plan. journal is where I stuck a lot of...
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    Poetry Major Works

    Mine was the progression of an individual through a week focusing on concepts such as the desensitization of humanity, transience and such by means of technological progression. In the more simplistic sense it is observations made by one character of the modern world she is exposed to. But the...
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    BOS Showcase: 2004 Major Works

    hoplite – I wasn’t sure if you meant that winking emoticon as having a go at me thus the confusion :P. If only there was a better way of communicating tone without having to resort to emoticons dammit. I realise I came across as arrogant however I couldn’t be bothered spending double the amount...
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    BOS Showcase: 2004 Major Works

    long answer quoted from http://www.poetrypreviews.com/poets/prosepoem.html The prose poem is a type of poetry characterized by its lack of line breaks. Although the prose poem resembles a short piece of prose, its allegiance to poetry can be seen in the use of rhythms, figures of speech...
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    BOS Showcase: 2004 Major Works

    ryan011086 I read over your poetry and would be interested to find out how much reading you did of poetry in the lead up to composition. What was clear to me is that you don't seem to have a great deal of poetic knowledge. This was most manifest in your enjambement - your line breaks served...
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    BOS Showcase: 2004 Major Works

    I may as well share mine. I wrote a suite of poems, entitled "As the Days go". I'll chuck the reflection statement in as well. As a whole I'm pretty happy with this, but there are some individual poems in there that I detest. In fact there are only a couple of pieces in there that I actually...
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    BOS Showcase: 2004 Major Works

    glycerine: “There is no one value held by the show’s main characters; their exploration of sexuality is entirely individualised.” “The main value of this approach is that it allows thorough investigation of the complex subject rather than relegating adolescent sexuality to stock roles.”...
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    Parlons-nous le francais ici!

    j'ai recu mes <trial> notes aujourd'hui, c'etait comme ci comma ca, mais je sais que je doit faire pour l'HSC. C'est longtemps depuis je suis visite cette forum bonjour encore
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    Poetic techniques

    ohhh is this for your report? Because it's not enough to just know what a term is, you also need to know what effect it produces (this is usually in terms of what you have written as well). Usually you are aware of this, to some extent, when composing.
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    Poetic techniques

    why? go here: http://files.deviantart.com/f/2004/183/c/2/Useful_Resources_for_Writers.htm there is enough to last you a life time.
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    Poetic types

    there was a purpose in both milton - what rhyming poetry is this? shakespeare - typical sonnet. With iambic pentameter. meant to sound like speech. often telling story. rhyme aided rhythm.
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    What external mark is expected?

    yay my teacher and all those in the english department at my school said that I'd probably get 50 :)
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    Poetic types

    rhyme should only be used for a specific purpose.
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    French films

    lol. Pour un moment tu me fait peur parce que je n'ai pas su qui tu etait. je suis comme euh... wtf... mais... alors... tout est bien. Mais oui, c'est un bonne idee!
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    troubled...

    yes of course. What is the point in submitting a set of poems that don't relate to eachother - what can you write about in your reflection statement? It doesnt need to be an absolutely concrete link, but a link is as good as necessary
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