Telling Stories overview quiz (AQA A-Level English Language and Literature) quiz

A Shakespeare set play, a poetry anthology, a spoken language study and an unseen prose comparison task in the exam

The prose set text, the Paris Anthology non-fiction, imagined worlds and point of view, and narrative and genre

Child language development, language change over time, gender, occupation and power

An independent investigation, original creative writing, a reflective commentary and an unseen passage

As fiction to be interpreted for its deeper symbolic and allegorical meaning

As a set of poems closely analysed for their sound and form

As non-fiction studied for how it represents place, with unseen comparison

As a single continuous travel novel set in Paris

They are simply two different words for exactly one and the same narrative concept used in fiction

Narration applies only to poetry, whereas focalisation applies only to prose writing

Narration is the events of the plot; focalisation is the central theme of a story

Narration is who tells the story; focalisation is whose perspective events are experienced through

here

yesterday

she

quickly

The visual layout and typography of the text on the page

The narrator's certainty and attitude

The total number of characters in the narrative

The precise historical setting of the events

Listing the main literary themes of the text without any supporting quotation

Naming linguistic features without ever explaining their effect on the reader

Proving a literary interpretation with concrete, named linguistic features

Summarising the plot of the text in close detail

Hypothesis, method, results and conclusion

Thesis, antithesis and explanatory footnote

Subject, verb, object and complement

Equilibrium, disruption, new equilibrium

Its conventions create reader expectations, so following or breaking them is meaningful

It reliably tells you the exact publication date and the historical period of the writing

It strictly determines the word count an examiner expects in the response

It is only ever relevant when analysing poetry, not prose or non-fiction

AO4 and AO5

AO2 and AO1

AO3 alone

There are no assessment objectives in Paper 1

Linking a named feature clearly to its precise effect on the reader

Using accurate and confident linguistic metalanguage throughout

Naming a feature without explaining its effect (feature-spotting)

Comparing two texts closely and consistently throughout

Analyse one text fully, then analyse the other in a separate block

Describe the plot and events of each text in turn

Only analyse the anthology text and ignore the unseen extract

Compare throughout using a shared framework and connectives