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CCEA GCSE English Literature Unit 1: The Study of Prose quiz quiz

17questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What is the weighting of Unit 1, The Study of Prose, in CCEA GCSE English Literature?

  2. What does Section B of Unit 1 ask you to analyse?

  3. Which assessment objectives does Unit 1 test?

  4. What should you do before analysing a character in the studied-prose essay?

  5. What is a theme in a novel?

  6. Why track a character or theme across the whole novel rather than one chapter?

  7. What does AO2 ask you to analyse in prose?

  8. Which of these is a structural feature you could analyse?

  9. Why analyse a novel's narrative viewpoint?

  10. What is the first thing to do when meeting the unseen nineteenth-century extract?

  11. How should you handle an unfamiliar Victorian word in the unseen extract?

  12. What does the instruction to 'evaluate' add to an unseen analysis?

  13. Why is a setting in a novel never neutral?

  14. What lifts a setting answer into the higher bands?

  15. What is a 'line of argument' in a literature essay?

  16. What is the most common way to lose marks in the prose essay?

  17. Why plan the clock across Unit 1?