Shakespeare overview quiz - OCR GCSE English Literature quiz

Component 02, Section B

Component 01, Section A

Component 01, Section B

Component 02, Section A

A direct comparison of two different Shakespeare plays

A creative response written in the voice of a character

An extract-plus-whole-play question

A multiple-choice test on the events of the whole play

AO1

AO2

AO3

AO4

Because the whole-play material is closed book and must come from memory

Because the Shakespeare question is set entirely as a multiple choice test

Because context and period attitudes are not assessed at all in this section

Because the extract from the play is not printed anywhere on the question paper

The entire answer, with no reference made to the rest of the play

A springboard into tracing the idea across the whole play

A chance to write a plot summary of the events of the play

A list of all the characters who appear in the printed extract

Only the way that an individual actor chooses to perform the role on stage in a production

The total number of separate acts and scenes that the whole of the play has been carefully divided up into by Shakespeare

How Shakespeare builds character and theme: verse and prose, soliloquy, imagery, antithesis, structure and stagecraft

The particular theatre or playhouse in which the play happened to be first performed in London

A clear summary of all the main events of the plot so far in the play

A complete list of all the major themes that Shakespeare goes on to explore across the whole of the play

A change of scene that moves the action to a different place or time

Private access to a character's true thoughts, creating intimacy and dramatic irony

As a clause embedded inside analysis where it changes the reading

As a completely separate history paragraph set apart from the analysis

As a detailed account of the events of Shakespeare's own life and career

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

It is always factually wrong in some way or other and so it can never earn the student any of the marks at all

It rarely changes how a moment reads; relevant period attitudes that deepen a specific reading are what score

It is assessed under AO1 rather than under AO3, so it belongs in a different part

It is far too short to count as a developed point about the context of the play

It does not matter at all on the Shakespeare question and is never given any marks

It only matters in the poetry section and carries no marks at all for Shakespeare

AO4 is assessed in Section B, so spelling, punctuation, sentence variety and vocabulary carry marks

It is assessed only in coursework and not in any of the written examination papers at all this year