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Component 1: Poetry and Prose
Quick questions on The Component 1 paper (Poetry and Prose) - Eduqas A-Level English Language and Literature
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What is section A?Show answer
Section A pairs a poem from the pre-1914 Poetry Anthology, studied in advance, with an unseen post-1914 text printed on the paper. You write a single integrated comparison of the two, reading language, form, structure and context across the pair. The objective loading is AO1, AO2, AO3 and AO4, with AO4 prominent because the task is comparative: the answer must weave the two texts together around a shared idea, not analyse one fully and then the other. The anthology poem is known, so its secure knowledge and context anchor a comparison with a text read cold in the exam.
What is section B?Show answer
Section B is an essay on a studied prose fiction text from the Eduqas prescribed list (examples include Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Ian McEwan's Atonement). It is read through the integrated method with a focus on narrative method: how the story is told, the narrative perspective and focalisation, the language that builds character and voice, the structure. The loading is AO1, AO2, AO3 and AO5, so context frames the reading and, where the question invites it, an interpretation is held live. The text is studied in advance, and close analysis is anchored in moments but reaches across the novel from memory.
What is a comparative opening?Show answer
"Both texts hold time as loss, but the anthology poem keeps the past present through relentless present-tense verbs, where the unseen text fixes it as complete through a single perfective; the contrast in tense is the contrast in how each speaker bears what is gone." A point that exists only as comparison.
What is a prose argument?Show answer
"The novel isolates its protagonist grammatically as much as narratively: she is repeatedly the object of others' verbs and the focaliser of her own confinement, so the narration enacts the separation it describes. Reading the telling, not the events, shows where the isolation lives." Narrative method read to effect.
What is q1?Show answer
How is Component 1 structured, and what is its weighting? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why is AO4 prominent in Section A? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Explore how the writer presents the protagonist's isolation in your prose text, considering contexts. [out of 60]
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