English Literature Revision

By two closed-book written papers. Paper 1 (Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel) is 1 hour 45 minutes and 40%; Paper 2 (modern texts and poetry) is 2 hours 15 minutes and 60%. Any extract you need is printed in the exam.

You study one Shakespeare play, one 19th-century novel, one modern text and one poetry cluster. These lessons cover the most popular AQA choices: Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls and the Power and Conflict poems, plus unseen poetry.

Yes. The exam is closed book, so although some questions print an extract, you need a bank of short, well-chosen quotations you can analyse from memory. Each text lesson gives you the key quotations and how to analyse them.

For the anthology, learn each poem's meaning, form, language and context and practise comparing poems by theme. For unseen poetry you are not tested on context, so focus on close analysis of language and structure and on comparing two poems.

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