CCEA AS 1 poetry and drama overview quiz quiz

One hour

Two hours

One hour thirty minutes

Three hours

Section A, the study of drama 1900 to present

Section B, the study of poetry 1900 to present

Both sections are open book

Neither section is open book

Section A, the drama essay

Section B, the poetry comparison

Both sections are comparisons

Neither section involves comparison

To analyse only the longest speeches in the play

To summarise the plot of each act in order

To analyse staging, set, movement, silence and the audience, alongside dialogue

To compare the play with the poems in Section B

Because students can quote precisely, so vague paraphrase wastes the advantage

Because the examiner expects a longer answer than in any other unit

Because students may bring in their own annotations and notes

Because the drama question is worth more marks than any other

The rhyme scheme of a sonnet

The narrator's free indirect discourse

The chapter divisions of a novel

A stage direction marking a long silence

Quoting too precisely from the open-book text

Treating the play as a novel by analysing dialogue but ignoring staging

Connecting a key moment to the concerns of the whole play

Reading the play as something staged for an audience

Because the poetry section is open book and quotation is optional

Because the examiner deducts marks for any quotation at all

Because Section B is closed book and close analysis needs exact wording

Because the poems are not provided in the studied collection

By their subject matter alone, noting the theme they share

By writing all about poem A, then all about poem B

By counting which poem has more lines and stanzas

By method and effect, integrating both poems into each paragraph

Because it misses AO2 method and weakens the AO4 connection

Because subject matter is never relevant to a poem

Because it always makes the answer too short

Because it focuses too heavily on the poems' form

60 percent of the full A-level

24 percent of the full A-level

16 percent of the full A-level

40 percent of the full A-level

Pre-1900

Only the works of Shakespeare

Only the eighteenth century

1900 to present

In a significant moment, then connected to the whole play

In a summary of every scene in chronological order

In the playwright's complete biography

In a comparison with one of the studied poems

Reading the poems once the night before the exam

Memorising whole poems word for word with no analysis

Building a small bank of analysed, method-linked quotations per poem

Relying on being able to look the poems up in the exam