Post-1914 prose and drama overview quiz - Eduqas GCSE English Literature quiz

Component 2, Section A

Component 1, Section A

Component 1, Section B

Component 2, Section B

Yes, a printed extract of roughly a page is given to analyse closely

No, there is no extract, so all evidence is memorised

Yes, two contrasting extracts are printed for you to compare

Only prose texts print an extract; drama texts do not

One compulsory essay that everyone must answer with no choice offered

A comparison of your set text with an unseen second text

A whole-text essay chosen from two questions

A short multiple-choice test on plot and character details

Yes, context carries heavy weight and must be discussed throughout

Only for the drama texts, never for the post-1914 prose texts

Only in the conclusion, where a context paragraph is required

No, AO3 is not assessed in this section

AO4

AO3

AO5

None

Because the question is multiple choice and only tests names, dates and basic plot facts

Because there is no extract, so all evidence must come from memory across the whole text

Because context is not assessed and so quotations matter far less than in other sections

Because only the opening chapters are examined, so a few quotations from the start suffice

As a topic where you simply list every place it is mentioned in order

As background history about the period, written up before you begin

As the writer's argument, traced across the whole text

As the private opinion of one character, with no link to the writer

Free indirect style, where a narrator slides into a character's thoughts

Chapter titles and epigraphs that frame each new section of the story

A first-person narrator's voice guiding the reader through the events

Stage directions, entrances and exits, lighting and structural function

Clustering evidence in one part of the text (often the opening) and neglecting the rest

Writing far too much about historical context and not enough about the writer's methods

Quoting so accurately and at such length that there is no time to analyse the quotations

Comparing the set text with a second text that the question never actually asked about

It does not matter, because spelling and grammar carry no marks in this essay at all

AO4 is assessed here, so accurate, varied writing carries marks

Only the spelling of the title and the author's name is checked by the examiner here

AO4 is assessed only in the poetry sections, never on this post-1914 prose essay