AS Unit 1 Prose and Drama overview quiz - WJEC A-Level English Literature quiz

Closed-book, so the prose extract is printed but the rest is recalled

Fully open-book, with annotated copies of both texts allowed in

Open-book for the drama but closed-book for the prose section

There is no exam; the whole unit is non-exam coursework

A single post-1900 poem analysed in isolation

An unseen prose passage from an unknown author

A prescribed pre-1900 prose text, with a printed extract

A Shakespeare play studied as the only set text

Listing as many plot events as possible in chronological order

Analysing narrative method and arguing a reading of the text

Counting how many literary terms can be named in the answer

Reproducing the printed extract word for word from memory

AO5, exploring texts through different interpretations

AO4, exploring connections across literary texts

AO3, the significance and influence of contexts

AO2, the analysis of literary method

It is the one text you can quote precisely to anchor AO2 analysis

It can simply be copied out to fill the answer booklet quickly

It removes any need to know the rest of the novel at all

It is only background and should be ignored in the answer

A full summary of every chapter of the novel in order

Ignoring the extract and writing only about the ending

Connecting the extract to precise recalled moments elsewhere

Comparing the novel to a completely different set text

As a detachable paragraph of historical background at the start

Only where it deepens a point about the meaning of the text

By ignoring it, since AO3 is not assessed in this unit

By listing every fact known about the period of writing

As a novel, focusing only on the words characters speak

As a poem, analysing only rhyme and metre line by line

As a historical document about the playwright's own life

As a script for performance, analysing dramatic method

The exact print run of the first published edition

The number of pages in your study-guide edition

The sequencing of scenes and the placing of climaxes

The price of a theatre ticket when the play opened

Thematically, around the idea in the question

Chronologically, walking through the acts in order

Alphabetically, by the names of the characters

Randomly, writing down whatever comes to mind first

A stage direction printed in italics at the top of a scene

A character speaking directly to another character on stage

The audience knowing something a character on stage does not

Two characters rhyming their lines at the end of an act

Analysing the effect of a quoted word on the reader

Retelling the plot instead of analysing method and arguing

Reaching a clear judgement that answers the exact question

Embedding precise recalled detail to support a claim

Two hours, worth 20% of the A level

Three hours, worth 40% of the A level

Ninety minutes, worth 10% of the A level

One hour, worth 50% of the A level

Reaching a judgement without enough supporting evidence

Quoting precisely from the printed extract too often

Naming a technique without explaining its effect on the reader

Using period context to deepen a point about meaning

Only spelling, punctuation and grammar across the paper

AO1, AO2 and AO3: argued response, method analysis and context

AO4 and AO5 only: comparison and critical interpretations

Only AO3: the historical context of the texts studied