CCEA AS 2 prose pre-1900 overview quiz quiz

A two-hour open-book comparison of two novels

A one-hour closed-book single essay on a pre-1900 prose text

A multiple-choice paper on nineteenth-century history

A coursework portfolio marked internally

AO1, AO2 and AO3

AO2, AO4 and AO5

AO3, AO4 and AO5

AO1, AO4 and AO5

The historical events that take place in the novel

The author's biography and the year of publication

The number of chapters and the length of the novel

How the writer tells the story: voice, structure, characterisation and style

A stage direction marking a character's exit

The rhyme scheme of an embedded poem

Free indirect discourse blending narrator and character

The lighting design of a scene

Because the paper is open book and quotation is optional

Because the examiner penalises any use of quotation

Because the paper is closed book and close analysis needs exact wording

Because the novel is not named until the exam begins

A detached paragraph of the author's biography at the end

The relevant strand woven into the analysis where it changes a reading

A list of every historical event of the period

The longest possible account of the author's life

Opening with a clear thesis that answers the question

Analysing the narrative voice with precise quotation

Retelling the plot chapter by chapter and bolting on biography

Selecting the strongest points to argue under time pressure

Because the paper is short, so a few well-argued points beat skimming everything

Because the examiner only reads the first paragraph

Because every chapter of the novel must be summarised in turn

Because context is not allowed in the essay

With the next event in the story

With a quotation and no comment

With a date from the author's life

With an analytical point about narrative method

Prose written after 2000

Prose written from 1900 to the present

Only drama, not prose

Prose written before 1900

16 percent of the full A-level

24 percent of the full A-level

40 percent of the full A-level

60 percent of the full A-level

Because it tells the reader how long the novel is

Because who narrates, how reliably, and what is withheld all shape meaning

Because it is the only method that earns any marks

Because it removes the need to quote from the text

It explains how a novel read one way by its first audience may read differently now

It is the same as the plot of the novel

It refers only to the cover design of modern editions

It is never relevant to a pre-1900 novel