Modern prose or drama overview quiz - OCR GCSE English Literature quiz

Component 01, Section B

Component 01, Section A

Component 02, Section A

Component 02, Section B

Only an extract from your own studied text, with nothing else at all printed beside it on the paper

Two completely unseen extracts that you have never studied or seen before at all

An extract from your studied text and a thematically linked unseen extract in the same genre

A poem and a prose extract that you are then asked to compare closely with each other

Because part (b) is set entirely as a multiple choice test on the studied text

Because context and the period attitudes of the time are not assessed in this section

Because the studied text is very short and easy to learn off by heart completely

Because part (b) prints no extract, so all whole-text evidence comes from memory

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It is always a poem, whatever genre the studied text you have been given is in

A prose text is paired with a prose extract and a drama text with a drama extract

It is always written by exactly the same author as the studied text that you have been given

It is always exactly the same length as the extract from your own studied text

The studied extract, because you already know it best of the two of them

Neither of the two extracts; you should just start writing the answer immediately

The unseen extract, because the marks depend on reading the new passage well

Only the introduction, before you have begun to read either of the two extracts

There is no real difference and both of the words mean exactly the same thing

A theme is always much shorter and simpler than a topic is in any piece of writing

A topic only ever appears in poetry, while a theme only ever appears in prose texts

A topic is a subject; a theme is the argument the writer makes about that subject

As a clause embedded inside analysis where it changes the reading

As a completely separate history paragraph set apart from the analysis

Only in the introduction, before any analysis of the text has begun

It should be avoided entirely and left out of the answer altogether

It is shorter and quicker to write than an extract-by-extract comparison would be

It treats both extracts together in every paragraph using connectives

It analyses only the unseen extract and leaves out the studied extract entirely

It avoids using any quotations at all from either of the two extracts being compared

Spend most of the time on part (a) and only a little on part (b)

Roughly evenly, because each part is worth 20 of the 40 marks

Spend most of the time on part (b) and only a little on part (a)

Spend all of the available time on whichever of the two parts you find easier