CCEA GCSE English Literature: literary analysis toolkit quiz quiz

To weave a short quotation into your own sentence so it flows with the point

To write the quotation on a separate line after your point

To quote a whole paragraph for accuracy

To put the quotation in the conclusion

Because long quotations are banned

Because you cannot embed a long passage, so embedding forces precise selection

Because short quotations need no analysis

Because examiners count the words

As the whole of the analysis

Avoided entirely

Only in the introduction

To support the explanation of effect, used accurately

Analyse a few charged images in depth

Name as many devices as possible

Describe the feeling without quoting

Quote long passages and summarise them

Embedding a quotation

Analysing structure

Naming a device without explaining its effect

Planning an essay

Word choice

Imagery

Structure and form

Sound

The cover and title page

The number of words

Only the rhyme scheme

How a text is organised and develops, including order, shifts, turns and endings

It is not; it is only about language

Who tells the story shapes what the reader knows and feels

It only matters in poetry

It determines the rhyme

They are the easiest to remember

They are always the longest sections

They often carry meaning and mark where the text shifts

They contain the most quotations

A line that answers the question and three or four ordered points with evidence

A full introduction written out

A summary of the whole text

A list of every device in the text

The whole exam

No reading time is given

Five minutes

The first fifteen minutes

Evenly between the drama essay and the poetry comparison

Mostly on the drama essay

Mostly on the poetry comparison

All on whichever is answered first

Because the first answer is marked hardest

Because marks are spread across the sections, so completing each scores better

Because examiners stop reading after one answer

Because longer answers always score higher

Spending a minute checking at the end

Planning before writing

Letting one answer overrun and starving another

Reading the question twice

Summarise, quote, opinion

Point, embedded quotation, method named, effect explained

Device, device, device

Introduction, body, conclusion