Literature prose overview quiz - WJEC GCSE English Literature quiz

Two Shakespeare plays

A different cultures novel and a 19th century or literary heritage novel

Two poetry anthologies

A play and a short story collection

By a single multiple-choice test

By an extract question and a whole text question

By an oral presentation

By a comparison with a poem

A summary of the whole plot

Close reading of the printed passage for method and effect

A history essay about the period

A comparison of two novels

Knowledge of the printed extract only

Memorised knowledge of the entire novel and an idea-led argument

Spelling and punctuation only

A poem comparison

It is too short

The marks reward analysis of the writer's methods and their effect, not a summary of events

It uses too many quotations

It is against the rules

They are the same

A topic is a subject the novel mentions; a theme is the argument the writer develops about it

A theme is shorter

A topic only appears once

It avoids using quotations

Following a recurring image across the novel covers the whole text and shows development without retelling plot

It makes the answer shorter

It replaces the need for analysis

Because characters are always villains

Because the writer builds them through deliberate methods, so you analyse how they are presented

Because they are based on real people

Because they never change

The page number

Dialogue, action, description, narrative voice and other characters' views

The book's cover

The font size

When it is a long paragraph of dates

When it is relevant and embedded as a clause that explains why a writer's choice lands

When it has no link to the text

When it replaces the analysis

It is too long

Detached from any quotation or method, it displays knowledge without sharpening analysis

It uses the wrong dates

It is always banned

Equally

Roughly twice as long on the 20-mark whole text essay as on the 10-mark extract

All on the extract

All on the essay

A very long quotation

A short, versatile line that can answer several possible questions about a character or theme

A quotation you invent

A quotation with no relevance

A chapter-by-chapter retelling

Paragraphs organised by interpretations of the question, each proved by method and quotation

A list of characters

A summary of the ending