The 19th century novel overview quiz - Eduqas GCSE English Literature quiz

Component 2, Section B

Component 1, Section A

Component 1, Section B

Component 2, Section A

Yes, you choose one question from a choice of two on your novel

No, it is a single compulsory question

Yes, you choose two questions from a choice of three on your novel

Only for some of the set novels, but not for all of them

A whole-text essay with no printed extract provided to work from at all

A comparison of two different novels set against each other

An extract-based question linking the extract to the whole novel

A creative response, such as writing a new scene for the novel

AO4

AO5

None

AO3

No, AO4 is assessed only on the Shakespeare and post-1914 essays

Yes, AO4 is assessed on the 19th century novel question as well

Only for the prose sections of the paper and never for poetry

Only in the conclusion of the answer, where spelling accuracy is checked

As the entire answer, analysing only the extract and nothing else

As a springboard into linking the idea to the whole novel

As a plot summary that retells what happens in the extract in order

As a list of all the characters who appear in the printed extract

Simply summarising what happens in the printed extract, event by event, in your own words

Counting the number of paragraphs and sentences the writer has used

Analysing specific choices (diction, imagery, sentence structure, sound) and their effect

Describing only the setting where the events of the extract take place

As a completely real person whose actions and feelings you simply describe in detail

As the author's own autobiography, telling the story of their real life

As unimportant compared to the plot and the events of the story itself

As a construction built through the writer's methods, traced across the novel

Rigid class, industrial poverty, the limited position of women, and anxieties about science and religion

The invention of the internet and the way that it completely changed how people all over the world communicate

Modern social media and the influence it has on the lives of young people today

The author's favourite food and the meals they liked to eat while writing

As a separate paragraph of history placed at the very start of the answer

As clauses embedded inside analysis where they change the reading

As the author's full biography, telling the story of their whole life

It should be left out of the answer completely and never mentioned