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English Language & LiteratureQ&A by dot point
A short Q&A bank for every Wales English Language & Literature syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.
Comparative Analysis of Texts
- Analysing spoken language: reading transcription conventions and the features of speech (fillers, false starts, turn-taking, prosody, deixis, spontaneity) and comparing speech with written texts.4Q&A pairs
- Comparing three unseen texts: planning a connective comparison across genres and periods, structuring by point of comparison, and analysing how texts linked by content, theme or style make meaning (AO4).6Q&A pairs
- Genre, audience and purpose: identifying genre conventions, intended audience and purpose, analysing register and mode, and detecting viewpoint, stance and bias in unseen texts.4Q&A pairs
Creative and Critical Writing
Language and Literary Methods
- Analysing prose fiction: narrative voice and point of view, free indirect discourse, characterisation, focalisation and narrative structure, integrated with linguistic analysis.4Q&A pairs
- Contexts and interpretations: integrating contexts of production and reception (AO3) and exploring multiple, debated interpretations (AO5) as drivers of analysis, not bolted-on biography.6Q&A pairs
- The integrated method: applying linguistic and literary concepts and terminology together, using the language levels as a single analytical toolkit to explore how meaning is shaped in any text.5Q&A pairs
- The language levels toolkit: phonology, graphology, lexis and semantics, grammar and morphology, pragmatics and discourse, used as a systematic framework for analysing any text.5Q&A pairs
Poetry and Shakespeare
- Analysing poetry: form and metre, structure and stanza, sound patterning, imagery and figurative language, integrated with linguistic analysis to explain how a poem makes meaning.5Q&A pairs
- Comparing anthology poems: building an integrated comparison around a shared concern, connecting and contrasting poetic methods and using comparative discourse to sustain a connective argument (AO4).5Q&A pairs
- The Shakespeare extract question: analysing dramatic methods in a given extract (dialogue, dramatic structure, stagecraft, dramatic verse) and linking the extract to the play as a whole.4Q&A pairs