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English Language & LiteratureQ&A by dot point
A short Q&A bank for every England English Language & Literature syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.
Paper 2: Exploring Conflict
- Analysing conflict as a unifying concept across the Exploring Conflict texts: types of conflict, how it is represented in language, and how it organises narrative, drama and poetry.2Q&A pairs
- Studying the set play in Exploring Conflict through dramatic encounters: analysing conflict, dramatic dialogue, stagecraft and the dramatist's methods using the integrated language and literature approach.2Q&A pairs
- The Writing about society task in Exploring Conflict: producing a re-creative piece based on a set text and a critical commentary that analyses the choices and their relationship to the original.2Q&A pairs
Language and Literature Methods
- Discourse and pragmatics as analytical methods: cohesion and whole-text structure, and meaning in context through implicature, speech acts, deixis, politeness and turn-taking.2Q&A pairs
- The integrated method at the heart of 7707: combining literary interpretation with precise linguistic analysis so that language evidence drives interpretation rather than sitting beside it.2Q&A pairs
- The levels of language analysis as the metalinguistic toolkit for 7707: phonology and prosodics, lexis and semantics, grammar and morphology, and graphology, applied to literary and non-literary texts.3Q&A pairs
- Narratology as a method: the concepts of story and discourse, narration and voice, focalisation, narrative time and reliability, applied to fiction and non-fiction across the course.2Q&A pairs
Paper 1: Telling Stories
- Studying the prose set text for Telling Stories: narrative structure, characterisation, point of view and style, analysed through the integrated language and literature method.2Q&A pairs
- The conceptual core of Telling Stories: how point of view is constructed through narration, focalisation, deixis and modality to build imagined worlds and position the reader.2Q&A pairs
- How narrative and genre conventions shape texts across fiction and non-fiction in Telling Stories, including structural models of narrative and the way writers exploit and subvert genre.2Q&A pairs
- Studying the Poetic Voices strand of Telling Stories: the nature and function of poetic voice in one set poet (Donne, Browning, Duffy or Heaney), analysing persona, the dramatic monologue, and the presentation of people, time and place.2Q&A pairs
- Studying the AQA Anthology: Paris as non-fiction, analysing how travel writing, memoir and journalism represent place, and preparing for unseen comparison in the exam.2Q&A pairs
The NEA: Making Connections
- The skill of comparison for the NEA and exams: building a comparative framework, comparing across genres, and using points of similarity and difference to drive an integrated argument.2Q&A pairs
- The Making Connections NEA investigation: choosing texts and a focus, comparing one literary and one non-literary text or a theme across texts, and meeting the academic and referencing requirements.4Q&A pairs
- Writing the critical commentary that accompanies re-creative and original writing: analysing your own choices with metalanguage, linking them to a base text or style model, and reflecting on effect.2Q&A pairs