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Paper 2: Exploring Conflict

3 dot points across 3 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

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.
How to analyse conflict as the unifying concept of AQA Exploring Conflict, covering types of conflict, how it is represented through language across narrative, drama and poetry, and how to link conflict as theme to its linguistic construction.
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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.
How to analyse the AQA Exploring Conflict set play through dramatic encounters, covering conflict, dramatic dialogue, turn-taking, stagecraft and the dramatist's methods, using an integrated language and literature approach for the exam.
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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.
How to tackle the AQA Exploring Conflict re-creative task: producing a transformed piece based on a set text and a critical commentary that analyses your linguistic and structural choices and how they relate to the original.
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