The anthology (Edexcel A-Level English Language and Literature) quiz

A curated collection of canonical 20th century poems chosen to illustrate metre, rhyme and figurative language

A prescribed collection of 20th and 21st century non-literary and digital texts across genres and modes

A single set novel studied in full alongside critical essays and contextual background reading materials

A grammar reference book listing word classes, sentence types and punctuation rules for close analysis

A syllable carrying main stress

An overlap between two speakers' turns

A timed pause in seconds

A rise in intonation across the unit

Interrupting another speaker in order to seize the conversational floor

Steering the conversation away from the current topic onto a new one

Raising the volume sharply to dominate the exchange and assert status

Minimal responses such as 'mm' and 'yeah' that signal attention

A paired exchange such as question and answer, or greeting and greeting

Two neighbouring words whose final stressed syllables rhyme with each other

Two adjectives placed side by side to modify the same head noun together

A pair of synonyms used in close proximity for emphasis and cohesion

Stress, intonation and rhythm in speech

Hyperlinks, hashtags, emoji and layout

Turn-taking patterns between speakers

Adjacency pairs structuring an exchange

Count the adjectives and other modifiers across the whole text before reading it closely

Write the conclusion first and then locate quotations that support it

Orient by establishing genre, mode, audience, purpose and the voice constructed

Quote the whole text in sequence and gloss each line as you go through

Graphology, layout and typographical choices

Only lexis, examined word by word in isolation

Rhyme scheme and regular metrical patterning

Prosody, turn-taking and pragmatics

Match the unseen on genre, mode or purpose so the comparison has genuine points of contact

Pick whichever anthology text happens to be shortest so there is less material to cover under time

Sideline the unseen text and devote the answer almost entirely to the anthology piece

Use the one you happened to memorise regardless of how it relates to the unseen text

Mistakes to be edited out before any analysis begins

Meaningful evidence of the voice and the speaker's state

Reliable proof that the speaker is poorly educated and careless

Background noise with no bearing on the analysis whatsoever

To save time in the exam by writing one combined response rather than two separate ones

Because the unseen text is provided only for context and carries no marks of its own here

Because Section A is a comparison assessing AO4, so the unseen voice must feed the points of comparison

To avoid using any metalanguage at all, on the grounds that technical terms are penalised in this particular section