Shakespeare overview quiz - Edexcel GCSE English Literature quiz

Component 1, Section B

Component 1, Section A

Component 2, Section A

Component 2, Section B

A single long essay on the whole play, with no printed extract provided to you at all

A comparison of two different Shakespeare plays studied across the course

A two-part question: a printed extract (Part a) and a whole-play theme essay (Part b)

A single question on a printed extract only, with nothing on the wider play

10 marks

30 marks

40 marks

20 marks

AO1 and AO2 only

AO1, AO2, AO3 and AO4

AO3 and AO4 only

AO2 and AO4 only

Yes, all of the evidence for Part (a) must be quoted from memory

No, the extract is printed so you analyse the lines in front of you

Only for the final paragraph, where memorised quotations are needed

Only quotations about context need to be learned and quoted by heart

A remark only the audience hears while others are on stage

A scene with no dialogue

A speech by a character alone, revealing inner thoughts

A switch from verse to prose

It is the exact wording required to gain marks for AO4 on this question

It saves a useful amount of writing time during the pressure of the exam

It is the only phrase that examiners are allowed to accept and credit

It keeps the focus on authorial method and signals AO2

A monarch was chosen by God, so regicide felt like a crime against God and the natural order

It meant that kings were free to change the law whenever they wished without challenge

It meant that kings actually held no real power at all and were ruled over by Parliament instead

It is an idea that is completely irrelevant to the plays and never shapes the audience

They are about two completely different plays studied during the course

Part (b) traces the same theme the extract introduced, but across the whole play

Part (b) is a comparison of the extract with another text from the anthology

They are unrelated questions that simply happen to appear next to each other on the paper

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

A list of every single technique that can be found in the printed extract

Each paragraph develops a new interpretation rather than a new scene

A summary of the whole plot first, then a section of analysis at the very end

Part (a) requires you to reproduce several long speeches entirely from memory in the exam

The exam is fully open book, so you can look up any quotation while you write

Quotations are not assessed at all, so there is no need to learn any of them

Part (b) is closed book apart from the extract, so wider evidence comes from memory

Retelling the plot instead of analysing presentation

Analysing the dramatic methods Shakespeare uses in the printed extract

Tracing how a key theme is developed right across the whole of the play

Using the printed extract as a springboard into the rest of the play