Shakespeare overview quiz - AQA GCSE English Literature quiz

Paper 1, Section B

Paper 2, Section A

Paper 1, Section A

Paper 2, Section C

Only the printed extract in close detail

A comparison of two Shakespeare plays

The historical background of the play

The printed extract and the whole play

AO4

AO1

AO2

AO3

It is the required spelling that you must use to pick up the AO4 accuracy marks

It keeps the focus on authorial method and signals AO2

It saves you a little time while writing under pressure in the exam

It is the only phrase that examiners will ever accept in an answer

A long passage that has been learned off by heart word for word

A quotation that has simply been copied straight from the printed extract

A short, memorable line that can support several different points

A line of historical context about the events of Shakespeare's own life

A remark only the audience hears while others are on stage

A scene with no dialogue

A switch from verse to prose

A speech by a character alone, revealing inner thoughts

A monarch was chosen by God, so regicide felt like a crime against God

A king could change any law he wished freely, so the audience expected tyranny

Kings actually held no real power at all and were merely figureheads for show

It is completely irrelevant to the plays and never affects the audience's response

As a separate opening history paragraph before any analysis begins on the page

Embedded in an analytical sentence where it changes the reading

Only in the conclusion right at the very end of the whole answer

Not at all, since AO3 is not assessed on the Shakespeare question

It is the only part of the answer that earns any marks from the examiner

The whole play is not assessed at all, so only the extract ever matters

It is your guaranteed evidence and a springboard into the whole play

It saves you from having to memorise any quotations before the exam

A scene-by-scene retelling of the play in the order the events happen

A list of every single technique that appears in the printed extract

A summary of the whole plot first, followed by some analysis at the end

Each paragraph develops a new interpretation rather than a new scene

Retelling the plot instead of analysing presentation

Analysing the dramatic methods Shakespeare uses to create meaning

Tracing a character arc carefully across the whole of the play

Writing accurately and clearly to pick up the AO4 marks