CCEA GCSE English Literature Unit 3: The Study of Shakespeare quiz quiz

A closed-book written exam

Controlled assessment worth 20 percent

An open-book written exam

An unseen extract analysis

AO1, AO2 and AO3

AO2, AO3 and AO4

AO1, AO2 and AO4

AO1, AO3 and AO4

You can prepare thoroughly because the task and play are known

It is unseen, so no preparation is needed

You can use the internet during the assessment

There is no time limit and notes are allowed

Skip any line you do not understand

Translate every word into modern English in your answer

Avoid quoting difficult lines

Work out meaning from context and the known scene, then analyse

A change of register or state (status, emotion, comedy, plain truth)

A printing error

The end of the play

That the character is the protagonist

A conversation between two characters

A speech a character makes alone, sharing private thoughts with the audience

A stage direction

A rhyming couplet at the end of a scene

A character speaking in rhyme

A comic misunderstanding

When the audience knows something a character does not

A sudden change of setting

The play as a novel to be read

The author's biography

The modern reader's opinion only

The play as drama written to be performed for an audience

It is arguable and can be proved from evidence

It simply names the character

It lists every scene the character appears in

It summarises the plot accurately

It is shorter

It keeps the focus on the author's deliberate choices, treating the character as a construct

It avoids using quotations

It is required by the mark scheme word for word

As a detached opening paragraph of history

Only at the very end of the essay

Woven into analytical points and anchored in the text

Avoided entirely to save time

Disguise, confusion and a marriage at the end

A high-status protagonist with a fatal flaw and a fall to suffering and death

A narrator who addresses the reader

A happy resolution for all characters

Handle AO1, AO2 and AO4 in separate sections

Retell the events of one scene

List devices without explaining their effect

Weave a critical point, analysis of method and effect, and relevant context, linked to the line

Going in underprepared, so the essay drifts into retelling

Quoting too precisely

Using too much accurate terminology

Spending too long planning the line

Introduce a brand-new argument

Summarise the whole plot

Reach a judgement that follows from the points

Define the genre of the play