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Question 1Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

In a prescribed Greek film, the recurrent use of a single motif across repeated scenes is best described as which technique?

  1. Diegetic sound
  2. Motif repetition Correct answer.
  3. Montage
  4. Mise-en-scène

Explanation

Motif repetition names the deliberate recurrence of an image, object or phrase so that viewers connect scenes and build meaning across the whole text. The other terms name different cinematic elements, so they describe what is repeated rather than the pattern of recurrence itself.

Question 2Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A student writes that a character's silence in a key scene 'reveals more than dialogue could'. Which analytical approach does this comment best illustrate?

  1. Identifying the setting
  2. Summarising the plot
  3. Describing camera position
  4. Reading silence as meaningful characterisation Correct answer.

Explanation

The comment interprets an absence of speech as carrying significance about the character, which is analysis of characterisation through what is withheld. Plot summary would simply report that nothing was said, without drawing interpretive meaning from it.

Question 3Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

Which term describes the perspective from which a narrative is told, shaping what the audience can know?

  1. Genre
  2. Tone
  3. Point of view Correct answer.
  4. Register

Explanation

Point of view identifies the narrative perspective that controls access to information, whether first person, third person limited or omniscient. Genre classifies the text by convention, while tone and register concern style and voice rather than the source of knowledge.

Question 4Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

When a prescribed novel opens with a description of a decaying house before any character appears, the house most likely functions as which element?

  1. A symbol establishing theme Correct answer.
  2. A plot twist
  3. A stage direction
  4. A comic aside

Explanation

An opening description that carries thematic weight, such as decay, typically works symbolically to establish mood and ideas before characters enter. A plot twist requires prior events to overturn, and stage directions belong to dramatic texts rather than prose fiction.

Question 5Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

Which statement best defines the theme of a literary text?

  1. The place where the action occurs
  2. The central idea or insight the text explores Correct answer.
  3. The narrator's grammatical person
  4. The sequence of events in the story

Explanation

Theme is the underlying idea or insight a text explores, such as loss, identity or duty, and it is inferred rather than stated as plot. Sequence of events is plot, place is setting, and grammatical person is a feature of narration.

Question 6Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A film cuts abruptly between a calm family dinner and a violent street scene. What is the primary effect of this juxtaposition?

  1. It invites comparison between the two worlds Correct answer.
  2. It confirms the dinner is imaginary
  3. It resolves the film's central conflict
  4. It establishes the film's running time

Explanation

Juxtaposing contrasting scenes through editing prompts the audience to compare them and infer a relationship of contrast or causation. Nothing in the cut itself establishes that one scene is imaginary, resolves conflict or comments on duration.

Question 7Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

In analysing a prescribed poem, which feature belongs to its form rather than its content?

  1. Its setting
  2. Its subject matter
  3. Its stanza structure Correct answer.
  4. Its implied message

Explanation

Form concerns how a poem is shaped, including stanza structure, line length and rhyme, whereas content concerns what it is about. Subject matter, implied message and setting all belong to what the poem communicates rather than how it is built.

Question 8Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A director shoots a character from a low angle so that the figure dominates the frame. What does this technique most commonly suggest?

  1. Comic triviality
  2. Weakness or defeat
  3. Power or dominance Correct answer.
  4. Neutral observation

Explanation

A low camera angle looks up at the subject, enlarging the figure and conventionally conveying power, authority or threat. High angles tend to diminish a figure, and a level, neutral framing would not produce the same effect of dominance.

Question 9Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A prescribed text presents a first-person narrator who repeatedly contradicts established facts. How should a student best analyse this unreliability?

  1. Examine how the contradictions shape the reader's judgement Correct answer.
  2. Ignore the narrator and analyse only dialogue
  3. Assume the contradictions are printing errors
  4. Treat every statement as literal truth

Explanation

An unreliable narrator is analysed by tracing how inconsistencies guide the reader to question the account and to construct meaning independently. Accepting every statement as true or dismissing the text as flawed abandons the interpretive work the author invites.

Question 10Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

In a prescribed Greek film, a character speaks in a regional dialect while officials speak standard Greek. This contrast most likely serves to:

  1. Indicate the film's budget
  2. Show the passage of time
  3. Signal the end of the scene
  4. Mark social distance and power Correct answer.

Explanation

Linguistic variation between dialect and standard language is a common way to encode social hierarchy, identity and power relations between characters. Budget, temporal progression and scene boundaries are conveyed by other means entirely.

Question 11Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A novel's narrator describes events using the pronoun 'I' but reports the private thoughts of other characters in detail. What is the most precise description of this narration?

  1. First-person narration with limited omniscience Correct answer.
  2. Third-person omniscient narration
  3. Dramatic monologue
  4. Second-person narration

Explanation

Use of 'I' establishes first-person narration, while access to other characters' inner thoughts exceeds ordinary first-person limits, producing a limited omniscience. Pure third-person narration would avoid the first-person pronoun, and second person would address 'you'.

Question 12Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A student claims a scene is 'ironic' because the character's confident speech is undercut by the visual image. Which pairing does this analysis bring together?

  1. Genre and title
  2. Setting and costume
  3. Music and credits
  4. Dialogue and visual imagery Correct answer.

Explanation

Dramatic irony of this kind arises when spoken words conflict with what the image reveals, so the analysis juxtaposes dialogue against visual imagery. Setting and costume, music and credits, or genre and title do not involve the contradiction between speech and image.

Question 13Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

When analysing how a prescribed play builds tension toward its climax, which feature is most relevant?

  1. The author's birthplace
  2. The number of characters named
  3. The publisher's edition
  4. The pacing of revelations across acts Correct answer.

Explanation

Tension is built through the timing and sequencing of revelations, so the pacing of disclosures across acts is the relevant structural feature. Biographical and publication details, or the count of named characters, do not directly explain dramatic tension.

Question 14Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A prescribed poem shifts from regular rhyme to free verse in its final stanza. What is the most defensible interpretation of this shift?

  1. The poet ran out of rhymes
  2. The breakdown of form may mirror a breakdown of certainty Correct answer.
  3. The stanza is not part of the poem
  4. The poem belongs to two genres

Explanation

A deliberate move from ordered form to free verse can be read as formally enacting a thematic collapse, such as lost certainty or control. Attributing it to authorial failure or to genre confusion ignores the interpretive possibilities the shift creates.

Question 15Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

In a prescribed film, a recurring close-up of a character's hands appears before every betrayal. This repetition functions primarily as:

  1. A visual foreshadowing device Correct answer.
  2. A continuity error
  3. A documentary convention
  4. A sound bridge

Explanation

A repeated image that consistently precedes a betrayal trains the audience to anticipate it, which is visual foreshadowing. Documentary convention, sound bridging and continuity errors describe other production practices unrelated to predictive repetition.

Question 16Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A student argues that a prescribed novel critiques a society rather than an individual. Which evidence would best support this reading?

  1. Patterns of behaviour repeated across many characters Correct answer.
  2. The length of the novel's chapters
  3. A single character's unusual hobby
  4. The author's dedication page

Explanation

A social critique is supported by showing that behaviours and flaws recur across a range of characters, implying systemic rather than personal causes. An isolated hobby, chapter length or a dedication page does not establish a pattern of societal criticism.

Question 17Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

Which element most directly conveys a film's tone in a given scene?

  1. Lighting, music and performance together Correct answer.
  2. The film's release date
  3. The running time
  4. The list of production companies

Explanation

Tone is the emotional atmosphere of a scene, produced by the combined effect of lighting, music and performance. Release date, production companies and running time are factual metadata that do not shape the audience's emotional response.

Question 18Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A prescribed text describes the same event twice from different characters' perspectives. What is the most significant effect of this structure?

  1. It removes the need for a narrator
  2. It reveals how perspective shapes truth Correct answer.
  3. It guarantees a happy ending
  4. It shortens the narrative

Explanation

Presenting the same event through different perspectives foregrounds the idea that truth is partial and constructed by viewpoint. It does not necessarily shorten the narrative, remove narration, or determine the outcome of the plot.

Question 19Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

An examiner asks for 'textual evidence' supporting an interpretation. Which response best meets this requirement?

  1. A statement of personal opinion
  2. A summary of the whole plot
  3. A description of the author's career
  4. A short quotation with an explanation of its effect Correct answer.

Explanation

Textual evidence means specific words from the text, and explaining their effect connects the quotation to the interpretation. Plot summary, unsupported opinion or biography does not anchor a claim in the text itself.

Question 20Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

In a prescribed film, non-diegetic music swells as a character makes a decision. What distinguishes this music from diegetic sound?

  1. It is recorded on set
  2. It is louder than dialogue
  3. Its source lies outside the story world Correct answer.
  4. It is spoken by a character

Explanation

Diegetic sound has a source within the narrative world, whereas non-diegetic music exists only for the audience and cannot be heard by characters. Volume, recording method or speech do not define the distinction.

Question 21Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A student writes: 'The recurring imagery of borders in the prescribed poems constructs belonging as conditional.' Which quality makes this a strong thesis?

  1. It links a technique to an interpretive claim Correct answer.
  2. It lists every image in the poems
  3. It avoids mentioning the text
  4. It summarises the poems' plots

Explanation

A strong thesis connects a specific technique, here recurring border imagery, to a contestable interpretive claim about belonging. Plot summary, exhaustive listing or avoidance of the text produces description rather than an arguable argument.

Question 22Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A prescribed novel uses a frame narrative in which an outer narrator introduces an inner tale. What interpretive possibility does this structure most enable?

  1. The outer narrator mediates and colours the inner story Correct answer.
  2. The novel has no narrator at all
  3. The inner story is necessarily false
  4. The outer narrator is the author

Explanation

A frame narrative places a mediating consciousness around the inner tale, so the outer narrator's biases and situation can shape how the inner story is received. It does not automatically make the inner tale false, eliminate narration, or equate narrator with author.

Question 23Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

Two students disagree about whether a prescribed film's ending is hopeful. Which approach best resolves the disagreement analytically?

  1. Comparing the actors' other films
  2. Consulting the film's ticket sales
  3. Weighing evidence from recurring motifs and final framing Correct answer.
  4. Counting how many scenes are outdoors

Explanation

Interpretive disputes are resolved by weighing textual evidence, such as recurring motifs and the framing of the final shot, against competing readings. Extraneous data like scene counts, actors' careers or ticket sales cannot adjudicate meaning.

Question 24Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A prescribed poem addresses a 'you' who never speaks and may be the reader, a lover or a nation. What does this ambiguity of address most contribute to?

  1. A fixed single meaning
  2. A change of genre
  3. A failure of grammar
  4. An openness that invites multiple readings Correct answer.

Explanation

An unspecified addressee creates productive ambiguity, allowing the poem to sustain several interpretations simultaneously. It does not fix one meaning, constitute a grammatical error, or by itself change the poem's genre.

Question 25Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A director uses a long, unbroken take following a character through a crowded street. What is the most likely purpose of avoiding cuts here?

  1. To reduce the film's budget
  2. To sustain immersion and continuity of experience Correct answer.
  3. To indicate the character is dreaming
  4. To shorten the scene

Explanation

An extended unbroken take keeps the audience within the character's continuous experience, heightening immersion and spatial realism. Avoiding cuts does not inherently lower cost, signal a dream state or reduce the scene's length.

Question 26Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

In literary analysis, what is the standard meaning of 'theme'?

  1. The central idea or insight about life that a text explores Correct answer.
  2. The physical setting in which the action occurs
  3. The order in which events are narrated
  4. The number of lines in each stanza

Explanation

Theme refers to the underlying idea or comment on human experience that a text develops through its events, characters and imagery. It is distinguished from setting, structure and narrative order, which are technical or contextual features rather than ideas.

Question 27Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

Which term describes the perspective from which a story is told, such as first person or third person?

  1. Tone
  2. Point of view Correct answer.
  3. Motif
  4. Genre

Explanation

Point of view identifies the narrative perspective, including who narrates and how much that narrator knows. Motif, tone and genre describe recurring images, attitude and category respectively, so they do not name narrative perspective.

Question 28Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A student needs to identify the 'climax' of a prescribed play. Which moment should the student locate?

  1. The stage direction describing the set
  2. The point of greatest tension where the central conflict reaches its turning point Correct answer.
  3. The opening scene that establishes the setting
  4. The final line spoken by any character

Explanation

The climax is the moment of peak tension when the central conflict turns decisively toward resolution. Opening exposition, closing lines and set descriptions serve different structural functions and do not mark that turning point.

Question 29Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

In film analysis, what does the term 'mise-en-scène' refer to?

  1. The editing rhythm between successive shots
  2. Everything placed within the frame, including setting, costume, lighting and composition Correct answer.
  3. The music played outside the story world
  4. The written screenplay before filming

Explanation

Mise-en-scène covers all the visual elements arranged within the frame, such as setting, costume, lighting, props and blocking. Editing, screenplay and non-diegetic music are separate technical categories.

Question 30Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

Which statement correctly distinguishes a simile from a metaphor?

  1. A simile appears only in poetry, while a metaphor appears only in prose
  2. A simile uses direct assertion, while a metaphor always uses 'like' or 'as'
  3. A simile repeats a sound, while a metaphor repeats a word
  4. A simile compares using words such as 'like' or 'as', while a metaphor asserts a comparison directly Correct answer.

Explanation

A simile makes its comparison explicit through a connective such as 'like' or 'as', whereas a metaphor states the comparison without that connective. Both figures can appear in poetry and prose, and neither is defined by sound or word repetition.

Question 31Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

In a prescribed novel, a narrator reports only what can be observed from outside and never enters characters' minds. Which term best describes this narration?

  1. First-person unreliable
  2. Second-person address
  3. Omniscient third person
  4. Third-person objective Correct answer.

Explanation

Third-person objective narration stays outside characters' consciousness and reports only observable behaviour and speech. Omniscient narration would enter minds, first person would use 'I', and second person would address 'you'.

Question 32Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

Which of the following is a feature of diegetic sound in film?

  1. A voice-over reflecting a character's private memory
  2. A radio playing within the scene that the characters can hear Correct answer.
  3. A soundtrack song used only over the closing credits
  4. An orchestral score added in post-production

Explanation

Diegetic sound originates within the story world and is audible to the characters, as with a radio in the room. Added scores, reflective voice-overs and credit songs exist outside that world and are non-diegetic.

Question 33Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

What is the purpose of a 'topic sentence' in an analytical paragraph about a prescribed text?

  1. To state the paragraph's central claim that the evidence will support Correct answer.
  2. To summarise the entire plot of the text
  3. To quote the longest passage from the text
  4. To list every technique used in the text

Explanation

A topic sentence announces the argumentative claim that the rest of the paragraph develops and supports with evidence. Quoting at length, retelling plot or listing techniques does not establish an analytical claim.

Question 34Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A prescribed poem repeats the phrase 'we remember' at the start of several consecutive lines. Which technique is being used?

  1. Onomatopoeia
  2. Hyperbole
  3. Oxymoron
  4. Anaphora Correct answer.

Explanation

Anaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or lines, which is exactly what the poem does. Onomatopoeia imitates sound, hyperbole exaggerates, and oxymoron joins contradictory terms.

Question 35Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A prescribed novel describes a character's grand house in lavish detail, then reveals the character cannot pay his debts. Which technique best explains the effect of this pairing?

  1. Personification, because the house acts like a person
  2. Alliteration, because sounds are repeated
  3. Foreshadowing, because the ending is announced
  4. Situational irony, because appearance and reality diverge Correct answer.

Explanation

Situational irony arises when an expectation set up by appearances is contradicted by reality, as with grand display masking insolvency. Alliteration, personification and foreshadowing describe sound, attribution and anticipation rather than this contradiction.

Question 36Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A director alternates between warm golden lighting in childhood scenes and cold blue lighting in adult scenes. What is the most defensible interpretation?

  1. The lighting proves the film was shot in different decades
  2. The lighting scheme contrasts nostalgic memory with present alienation Correct answer.
  3. The lighting indicates that the camera was faulty
  4. The lighting is irrelevant because only dialogue carries meaning

Explanation

Colour and lighting are deliberate design choices that shape emotional associations, so a warm-cold contrast can encode memory versus present estrangement. Production dates, equipment faults and the dismissal of visual meaning ignore how film communicates through images.

Question 37Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

In a prescribed short story, a character's name is withheld until the final paragraph. What is the most likely effect of this delay?

  1. It proves the story is told in the second person
  2. It removes the need for any setting
  3. It withholds identity, making the moment of naming significant Correct answer.
  4. It shows the author forgot to introduce the character

Explanation

Delaying a name is a structural choice that suspends the reader's sense of identity and gives the eventual naming dramatic weight. It is not an oversight, does not determine narrative person, and has no bearing on setting.

Question 38Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A student is asked to analyse how a prescribed film creates a sense of entrapment. Which evidence is most relevant?

  1. The list of actors in the opening credits
  2. Repeated framing of the character through doorways and narrow corridors Correct answer.
  3. The number of locations used in production
  4. The film's total running time

Explanation

Framing characters within doorways and narrow spaces visually constrains them, directly constructing the feeling of entrapment. Credit lists, running time and location counts are production facts rather than techniques of visual meaning.

Question 39Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

In a prescribed play, a servant delivers news of a battle that occurs offstage. Which convention is being used?

  1. Soliloquy, where a character speaks alone
  2. Reported action, where significant events are narrated rather than shown Correct answer.
  3. Aside, where a character addresses the audience unheard
  4. Comic relief, where humour interrupts tension

Explanation

Reported action is the theatrical convention in which important events happen offstage and are conveyed through narration by a messenger. Soliloquy, aside and comic relief involve solitary speech, audience address and humorous interruption respectively.

Question 40Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A prescribed poem uses short, clipped lines and frequent full stops. What is the most defensible reading of this form?

  1. The full stops show the poem is written in prose
  2. The short lines indicate the poem is unfinished
  3. The punctuation proves the poet disliked long poems
  4. The halting rhythm enacts the speaker's emotional restraint Correct answer.

Explanation

Line length and punctuation are formal choices that shape pace and feeling, so clipped lines with heavy stops can enact restraint or hesitation. Personal preference, incompleteness and prose status are not supported by form alone.

Question 41Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

Which sentence uses the most precise analytical vocabulary to describe a character's change?

  1. The character's initial certainty gradually erodes into self-doubt Correct answer.
  2. The character does stuff and then stops
  3. The character changes a lot during the story
  4. The character is different at the end

Explanation

Precise analysis names the specific quality of change and its direction, as in certainty eroding into self-doubt. Vague statements about changing 'a lot' or being 'different' do not identify what changes or how.

Question 42Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A prescribed novel's chapter titles are all names of Greek islands. How might a student best interpret this structural choice?

  1. The titles prove the author was born on an island
  2. The titles are irrelevant to meaning
  3. The titles map the narrative onto a geography of exile and return Correct answer.
  4. The titles show the novel has no structure

Explanation

Chapter titles that form a geographical sequence can organise the narrative symbolically, linking place to themes such as displacement and homecoming. Authorship biography, absence of structure and irrelevance are unsupported inferences.

Question 43Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

In analysing a prescribed film, what is the difference between a 'shot' and a 'scene'?

  1. A shot is a continuous run of the camera, while a scene is a unit of action in one time and place Correct answer.
  2. A shot is a written line of dialogue, while a scene is a chapter
  3. A shot is the whole film, while a scene is a single frame
  4. A shot is the musical score, while a scene is the setting

Explanation

A shot is an uninterrupted camera recording, whereas a scene is a dramatic unit defined by unity of action, place and time and may contain many shots. Dialogue lines, score and whole films are different categories entirely.

Question 44Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A prescribed text's narrator says 'I have always been honest' and then describes a lie. Which concept best describes this narrator?

  1. Third-person objective narration
  2. Stream of consciousness
  3. Unreliable narration Correct answer.
  4. Omniscient narration

Explanation

A narrator whose claims are contradicted by the account itself invites the reader to distrust them, which is the mark of unreliable narration. Omniscience, objective distance and stream of consciousness do not depend on such contradiction.

Question 45Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A student writes that a prescribed poem's final image 'resonates because it refuses consolation'. Which improvement best strengthens the analysis?

  1. Replacing the claim with a plot summary
  2. Removing the quotation entirely
  3. Naming the image and explaining how its wording produces that refusal Correct answer.
  4. Adding more adjectives such as 'powerful' and 'moving'

Explanation

Strong analysis anchors a claim in specific textual detail and explains how the language produces the effect. Intensifying adjectives, summarising plot or removing evidence weakens rather than strengthens the argument.

Question 46Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A prescribed film uses a handheld, shaking camera during a confrontation and a fixed tripod during the aftermath. What is the most defensible interpretation of this contrast?

  1. The camera operator became tired during the confrontation
  2. Camera stability shifts to register the difference between turmoil and stunned calm Correct answer.
  3. Handheld camera always signifies low budget
  4. The tripod scene was filmed on a different day

Explanation

Camera movement and stability are expressive choices that can embody emotional states, so instability for turmoil and fixity for calm form a meaningful contrast. Operator fatigue, shooting schedules and budget assumptions are production explanations that ignore expressive intent.

Question 47Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A prescribed novel interleaves two timelines without chapter breaks or dates. Which interpretive claim is most defensible?

  1. The unmarked transitions blur temporal boundaries, mirroring the protagonist's difficulty separating past from present Correct answer.
  2. The absence of dates proves the author could not decide on a chronology
  3. The two timelines must describe the same day
  4. The novel has no structure and cannot be analysed

Explanation

Unmarked transitions are a structural choice that can fuse past and present, reinforcing a character's blurred temporal experience. Authorial indecision, absence of structure and the claim that both timelines coincide are unsupported by the technique itself.

Question 48Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A prescribed play gives a character a soliloquy in which she argues with herself, and the audience alone hears it. What does this convention most directly enable?

  1. The resolution of the plot's external conflict
  2. A realistic depiction of ordinary conversation
  3. Access to the character's inner conflict that other characters cannot perceive Correct answer.
  4. A shift into third-person narration

Explanation

A soliloquy lets a character voice private thought aloud, giving the audience direct access to inner conflict unavailable to other characters. It is not ordinary conversation, does not create third-person narration, and does not itself resolve external action.

Question 49Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A prescribed poem's speaker shifts from 'I' to 'we' in its closing lines. Which interpretation is best supported by this shift?

  1. The shift proves there are two separate poets
  2. The shift shows the poem has changed genre
  3. The shift indicates a grammatical error
  4. The shift broadens a private experience into a collective one Correct answer.

Explanation

A pronoun shift from singular to plural is a deliberate formal move that can widen a personal reflection into shared or communal experience. Multiple authorship, error and genre change are not warranted by the pronoun shift alone.

Question 50Responding to and analysing prescribed texts (literature and film)

A student claims a prescribed film's ending is ambiguous. Which evidence would most strongly support that claim?

  1. The director has made several other films
  2. The film has won awards at international festivals
  3. The film's running time is unusually long
  4. The final shot withholds a clear resolution and the last line can be read two ways Correct answer.

Explanation

Ambiguity is demonstrated by textual features that sustain multiple readings, such as an unresolved final shot and a double-edged closing line. Awards, filmography and running time are external or measurable facts that do not show ambiguity.