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EnglandEnglish Language & Literature

Component 1: Poetry and Prose

7 dot points across 7 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do you analyse poetic method (form, structure, imagery, voice, metre and sound) with linguistic precision so poetry analysis is integrated rather than device-spotting?

How do you build an integrated comparison of the anthology poem and the unseen text around a shared idea, so AO4 is genuine rather than two analyses bolted together?

What is narrative method (perspective, focalisation, free indirect style, transitivity, time) and how do you analyse it with the language levels?

How is Component 1 structured, what does each section assess, and what does the paper reward across the poetry comparison and the prose essay?

What is the WJEC pre-1914 Poetry Anthology, how do you command it for the comparison, and how do you read each poem with the integrated method?

How do you answer the Component 1 Section B essay on a studied prose fiction text, and what does an integrated reading of the novel reward?

How do you read an unseen post-1914 text cold under exam conditions and analyse it with the integrated method ready to compare?