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Quick questions on AO4: exploring connections across texts - Eduqas A-Level English Literature
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What is a poetry connection?Show answer
"Both poets find meaning in the ordinary, but they elevate it differently: Larkin lifts the mundane through a plain diction that suddenly deepens at a turn, so significance arrives by surprise, while Duffy ventriloquises an ordinary speaker whose own voice reveals more than she knows, so significance is dramatic and ironic. Where Larkin's everyday is transfigured by the poet's turn, Duffy's is exposed by the speaker's." Both poets are connected by method and meaning.
What is a prose connection?Show answer
"Both novels make confinement a condition of womanhood, but the earlier internalises it through free indirect discourse, registering constraint as invisible convention, while the later externalises it into named structures of power in plainer prose, a difference its post-2000 moment makes legible." The texts are connected by method and context, with the significance stated.
What is q1?Show answer
What makes a connection AO4-worthy rather than a plot observation? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why does idea-led structure serve AO4 better than text-by-text structure? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Take "both texts are about ambition" and turn it into an AO4 connection. [short response]
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