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

Component 01, Section A

Component 02, Section A

Component 02, Section B

Component 01, Section B

An extract-based question or a discursive whole-text question

Two separate extract-based questions on different parts of the novel

A poem question and a prose question on two different set texts

A comparison of two novels and a separate creative writing task

AO1

AO4

AO2

AO3

Because both of the options are set entirely as multiple choice questions

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

Because the wider novel is closed book and must be evidenced from memory

Because the extract from the novel is never printed on the question paper at all

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

A chance to write out a summary of the events of the plot so far

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

A springboard into tracing an idea across the whole novel

Close reading quotes a specific choice and explains its effect; paraphrase only summarises what happens

There is no real difference between the two of them at all and both of the words mean exactly the same thing

Paraphrase is always far more detailed and analytical than close reading of a chosen quotation

Close reading avoids using any quotations at all and simply retells the events of the story

As a completely separate history paragraph set apart from the analysis

As a clause embedded inside analysis where it changes the reading

Only in the introduction, before any analysis of the novel begins

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

It guarantees full marks on the question whatever else the answer happens to say

It is a strict requirement for AO4 and must appear in every paragraph of the answer

It links character to authorial purpose, turning description into argument

It removes any need to use quotations from the text to support the points made

It is much easier than writing about a character who develops and changes over the course of the whole novel

It needs no quotations from the text at all to back up the points the answer goes on to make

It avoids any need to bring in context or the period attitudes of the time the novel was written

Fixity can be a deliberate effect, so explaining why a writer keeps a character constant is analytical

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

It does not matter at all on this question and is never given any marks by the examiner

It only matters in the poetry section and carries no marks at all on the novel question

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