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Paper 2: Exploring Conflict
Module overview →- How do writers across genres represent conflict, and how do you analyse it as both theme and linguistic construction?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.12 min answer →
- How do you analyse the set play through dramatic encounters, conflict and the language of dramatic discourse?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.12 min answer →
- How do you write a re-creative response to a set text and justify your choices in a critical commentary?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.12 min answer →
Language and Literature Methods
Module overview →- How do discourse and pragmatics explain meaning beyond the sentence, and how do you apply them to dialogue and whole texts?Discourse and pragmatics as analytical methods: cohesion and whole-text structure, and meaning in context through implicature, speech acts, deixis, politeness and turn-taking.12 min answer →
- What is the integrated language and literature method, and how do you combine linguistic evidence with literary interpretation?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.12 min answer →
- What are the levels of language analysis, and how do you apply phonology, lexis, grammar, semantics and graphology to literary texts?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.12 min answer →
- What does narratology offer for analysing how stories are told, and how do you use its concepts of voice, focalisation and time?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.12 min answer →
Paper 1: Telling Stories
Module overview →- How do you analyse a whole prose set text as both a crafted narrative and a structured piece of language?Studying the prose set text for Telling Stories: narrative structure, characterisation, point of view and style, analysed through the integrated language and literature method.12 min answer →
- How do narration, focalisation and deixis create an imagined world and control a reader's point of view?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.12 min answer →
- How do texts use, follow and subvert genre conventions to tell stories and guide a reader's expectations?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.12 min answer →
- How does a poet construct voice, and how do you analyse the Poetic Voices set poet's presentation of people, time and place?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.13 min answer →
- How do non-fiction writers in the Paris Anthology represent a real place, and how do you compare anthology and unseen extracts?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.12 min answer →
The NEA: Making Connections
Module overview →- How do you compare texts and genres effectively, building a framework that links a literary and a non-literary text?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.12 min answer →
- How do you plan and write the Making Connections non-exam assessment that compares a literary and a non-literary text?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.12 min answer →
- How do you write a critical commentary that analyses and justifies your own writing using linguistic and literary concepts?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.12 min answer →