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Practice paper focus areas

• Exam 1 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss and consolation, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love as persuasion and argument, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — how the setting of the text constrains its characters; Module 3 contexts: how each pair's era shapes attitudes to authority
• Exam 2 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on grief and memory, with poets' contexts and stylistic features (may name one prescribed Loss poem plus one other); Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love and time, with poets' contexts and stylistic features (may name one prescribed Love poem plus one other); Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — gender roles in the era of composition; class and mobility across two eras
• Exam 3 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss of a parent or elder, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on idealised versus physical love, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — religion and morality in the text's era; colonialism and its legacies across a pair
• Exam 4 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss and the natural world, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love and the natural world, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — law, justice and punishment in context; war and national identity across two contexts
• Exam 5 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on absence and presence, with poets' contexts and stylistic features (may name one prescribed Loss poem plus one other); Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love beyond death, with poets' contexts and stylistic features (may name one prescribed Love poem plus one other); Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — marriage as an economic and social institution; language and power across a pair
• Exam 6 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss of identity or culture, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on the lover's voice and address, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — science, reason and belief in context; place and Australian identity in a pair
• Exam 7 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss and renewal, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love and equality, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — empire, travel and the foreign 'other' in context; social expectation and conformity across a pair
• Exam 8 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss and anger, with poets' contexts and stylistic features (may name one prescribed Loss poem plus one other); Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on desire and mortality, with poets' contexts and stylistic features (may name one prescribed Love poem plus one other); Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — class hierarchy in the era of the text; adaptation and retelling across a pair
• Exam 9 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss and the passing of time, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love as union of selves, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — the stage or the novel as a public form in context; First Nations perspectives and frontier history in a pair
• Exam 10 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss of innocence, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love and faith, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — attitudes to sexuality in the era of the text; media, spectacle and public image across a pair
• Exam 11 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss and legacy, with poets' contexts and stylistic features (may name one prescribed Loss poem plus one other); Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love and power, with poets' contexts and stylistic features (may name one prescribed Love poem plus one other); Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — war and its aftermath in the text's context; migration and home across a pair
• Exam 12 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss and the body, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love and self-knowledge, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — the literary movement behind the text; gender expectations across two eras
• Exam 13 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss and memory in place, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love's excess or obsession, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — the text's first audience and their expectations; class and speech across a pair
• Exam 14 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss and speaking to the dead, with poets' contexts and stylistic features (may name one prescribed Loss poem plus one other); Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love and ageing, with poets' contexts and stylistic features (may name one prescribed Love poem plus one other); Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — slavery, servitude or captivity in context; landscape and history across a pair
• Exam 15 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss across generations, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love and the gaze, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — social mobility and money in the text's era; the Great War or later wars across a pair
• Exam 16 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss that cannot be named, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love and loss of the beloved's beauty, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — Enlightenment or Victorian ideas of progress in context; royalty, duty and the self across a pair
• Exam 17 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss and wisdom, with poets' contexts and stylistic features (may name one prescribed Loss poem plus one other); Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love as creation, with poets' contexts and stylistic features (may name one prescribed Love poem plus one other); Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — domestic space and gender in context; archaeology, the past and meaning across a pair
• Exam 18 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss and ritual, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love and courtship conventions, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — the tragic form and its society; retelling a classic from the margins across a pair
• Exam 19 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss and distance, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love's contradictions, with poets' contexts and stylistic features; Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — the colonial convict system or empire in context; dance, art and escape across a pair
• Exam 20 — Q1a Loss: compare two 2026 Loss-set poems on loss and the seasons, with poets' contexts and stylistic features (may name one prescribed Loss poem plus one other); Q1b Love: compare two 2026 Love-set poems on love's permanence, with poets' contexts and stylistic features (may name one prescribed Love poem plus one other); Q2/Q3 context: Module 2 — prevailing ideologies about women and property; outsiders reshaping communities across a pair