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EnglandEnglish Language & Literature

Paper 1: Telling Stories

5 dot points across 5 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do you analyse a whole prose set text as both a crafted narrative and a structured piece of language?

How do narration, focalisation and deixis create an imagined world and control a reader's point of view?

How do texts use, follow and subvert genre conventions to tell stories and guide a reader's expectations?

How does a poet construct voice, and how do you analyse the Poetic Voices set poet's presentation of people, time and place?

How do non-fiction writers in the Paris Anthology represent a real place, and how do you compare anthology and unseen extracts?