GCSE English Language and Literature What is on the exams? EDUQAS GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Code Activity Assessment method Value Component 1 Section A: Reading 20 th century unseen prose Section B: Prose Writing 1 hour & 45 mins exam 40% Component 2 Section A: Reading Non-fiction Section B: Two non-fiction/ persuasive writing tasks 1x 2 hour Exam 60% EDUQAS GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE Code Activity Assessment method Paper 1 Section A: (20%) Shakespeare One extract question and one essay question based on the reading of a Shakespeare text Section B: (20%) Poetry from 1789 to the present day Two questions based on poems from the WJEC Poetry Anthology, one of which involves comparison. Value 2 hours 40% Paper 2 Section A: (20%) Post 1914 Prose/Drama An Inspector Calls (Priestley) or Lord of the Flies One source based question Section B: (20%) 19th Century Prose A Christmas Carol (Dickens) One source based question Section C (20%) Unseen Poetry Two questions on unseen poems, one of which involves comparison. 2 hours & 30 mins exam 60% Preparing for GCSE English Language Component 1 Use practice exam papers for the reading section A. Practise writing narratives (stories) and have a couple of successful ones in mind which you can adapt. Make sure that you know when to start a new sentence and a new paragraph. Revise the rules for speech punctuation. Component 2 Use practice exam papers for the reading section A. Learn how the different text types letter, speech, review, article and leaflet are set out. Practice planning in paragraphs. For both exams make sure you know how the spell the thirty frequently used, frequently misspelt words the exam board call The Dirty Thirty!
English Literature Revision List Shakespeare -Revision list just for the one you have studied! Othello Romeo and Juliet Macbeth The plot Characters: Othello Iago Desdemona Casio Emilia Bianca Roderigo Brabantio Jealousy Gender Love and War Race Honesty and deception The plot Characters Romeo Juliet Capulet Lady Capulet The Nurse Montague and Lady Montague Friar Laurence Tybalt Mercutio Benvolio The Prince Love Family Conflict The plot Characters Macbeth Lady Macbeth Banquo Macduff Duncan The witches The supernatural Ambition Guilt Reality and appearance Anthology Poetry 1. The Manhunt Simon Armitage 2. Sonnet 43 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3. London William Blake 4. The Soldier Rupert Brooke 5. She Walks in Beauty Lord Byron 6. Living Space Imtiaz Dharker 7. As Imperceptibly as Grief Emily Dickinson 8. Cozy Apologia Rita Dove 9. Valentine Carol Ann Duffy 10. A Wife in London Thomas Hardy 11. Death of a Naturalist Seamus Heaney 12. Hawk Roosting Ted Hughes 13. To Autumn John Keats 14. Afternoons Philip Larkin 15. Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen 16. Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley 17. Mametz Wood Owen Sheers 18. Excerpt from The Prelude William Wordsworth
Post 1914 Literature- one of either- Lord of the Flies Revise the plot + Characters- Ralph Jack Piggy Secondary characters Simon Roger Minor characters Sam and Eric (Samneric) The Littluns The choir/hunters Maurice Robert The naval officer Evil Power The island An Inspector Calls Revise the plot + Characters- Arthur Birling Mrs. Sybil Birling Sheila Birling Eric Birling Gerald Croft The Inspector Eva Smith - Responsibility Gender Social Class The generation gap Nineteenth Century Fiction A Christmas Carol Characters- Revise the plot Scrooge Fred Bob Cratchit and Family Minor characters Fan, Belle, Fezziwig, the charity collectors. Charity Poverty Christmas Redemption Kindness and generosity
English Literature Revision Ideas Re-read the text. There is no substitute for this. You will notice far more details on a second or third reading. Annotate and highlight your text. You could highlight key quotations about and by characters and how themes and messages are shown. Highlight and make note of: How each act/ chapter/poem starts and ends At least two or three key quotations for each character Make revision cards or notes. Have one for each character and theme. You could, for example on a character card have adjectives to describe the character, relationship with others, involvement links to theme, and a few short key quotes. Mind map the plot or make a flow chart of the plot. Use Bitesize: https://www.bbc.com/education/topics/z2swhv4 Colour code quotations according to theme. Make posters with key quotations. Re- write the plot. Devise a quiz for someone else with answers! Watch the film or BBC version. Plan sample responses. Study guides available through school will appear on Parentpay:
The Dirty Thirty learn to spell these words! 1. accommodation 2. appalled 3. beautiful 4. because 5. beginning 6. believe 7. business 8. ceiling 9. decided 10. definitely 11. disappear 12. disappointed 13. embarrass 14. extremely 15. friend 16. immediately 17. minute 18. necessary 19. neighbour 20. nervous 21. opportunity 22. persuade 23. queue 24. quiet 25. quite 26. receive 27. separate 28. sincerely 29. surprised 30. until
Alliteration Ambiguity Assonance Colloquial Connotation Diction Empathy Enjambment Figurative language Hyperbole Imagery Imperative Internal rhyme Irony Metaphor Metre Onomatopoeia Personification Protagonist Pun Rhyme Rhyme scheme Rhythm Satire Simile Sonnet Stanza Structure Symbol Proper noun Common noun Adjective Verb Adverb Literary Terminology The repetition of the same consonant sound, especially at the beginning of words Use of language where the meaning is unclear or has two or more possible meanings or interpretations. It could be created by a weakness in the writer s expression, but it is more likely it is a deliberate device used by the writer to create layers of meaning The repetition of similar vowel sounds Ordinary, everyday speech and language An implication or association attached to a word or phrase. It is suggested or felt rather than being explicit The choice of words a writer uses. Another word for vocabulary A feeling on the part of the reader of sharing the particular experience being described by the character or writer A line of verse that flows on into the next line without a pause Language that is symbolic or metaphorical and not meant to be taken literally Extreme exaggeration and is used to make a strong point. The use of words to create a picture or image in the mind of the reader. Images can relate to any of the senses, not just sight Imperative verbs are verbs which create a sentence that gives an order bossy verbs Rhyming words within a line rather than at the end of lines At its simplest level, it means saying one thing while meaning another. It occurs where a word or phrase has one surface meaning but another contradictory, possibly opposite meaning is implied. Irony is often confused with sarcasm. Sarcasm is spoken, relying on the tone of voice and is much more blunt than irony A comparison of one thing to another to make the description more vivid. The metaphor actually states that one thing is another. The regular use of unstressed and stressed syllables in poetry The use of words whose sounds copies the thing or process they describe The attribution of human feelings, emotions, or sensations to an inanimate object. Personification is a type of metaphor where human qualities are given to things or abstract ideas. The main character or speaker in a poem, monologue, play or story A play on words that have similar sounds but quite different meanings Corresponding sounds in words, usually at the end of each line, but not always The pattern of rhymes in a poem The movement of the poem as created through the meter and the way that language is stressed within the poem The highlighting or exposing of human failings or foolishness through ridiculing them. Satire can range from being gentle and light to extremely biting and bitter in tone The comparison of one thing to another in order to make the description more vivid A fourteen-line poem, usually with 10 syllables in each line. There are several ways in which the lines can be organised, but they often consist of an octave and a sestet The blocks of lines into which a poem is divided. [Sometimes these are, less precisely, referred to as verses, which can lead to confusion as poetry is sometimes called verse ] The way a poem or play or other piece of writing has been put together Like the use of images, symbols present things which represent something else. In very simple terms, a red rose can be used to symbolise love; distant thunder can symbolise approaching trouble. Symbols can be very subtle and multi-layered in their significance Names people or places Names things Describes a noun, gives more information about it Describes an action Describes a verb, gives more information about it.