Focus on Section B questions

It's a good idea to focus on Section B questions between now and the exam. Use the mark schemes and possible answer lists available from the AQA to help you plan or write answers (English Literature B 2745).

Timed essay on Gatsby

Some readers are irritated by Nick Carraway as a narrator.

What is your view of Fitzgerald's use of Nick Carraway as a narrator?

To be completed in class on Tuesday 30 April.

Section B timed essay

Timed essay on Tuesday 23 April:

  Write about the significance of climaxes and /or anti-climaxes in the narratives of three writers you have studied.

 

Section B question

Write about the significance of the use of speech in the three texts you have studied.
To be handed in on Tuesday 16 April.

Enduring Love chapter notes

Complete all notes on 'Enduring Love' chapters and appendices by Tuesday 26 March.

Enduring Love type (b) question

How far do you agree that by the end of chapter 8 the reader is engaged with the novel? To be handed in on Tuesday 19 March.

Auden type (b) question

 

Choose one of the following Auden type (b) questions discussed in class and answer it:

1. How far would you agree with the view that the relationships in Auden’s poetry are far from happy?

2. How important is time in Auden’s poetry?

3. How far do you agree with the view that Auden’s poems always leave the reader with a disturbing sense of uncertainty?

4. How do you respond to the view that Auden’s poems are too obscure to be enjoyable?

5. How far do you think that Auden’s poems are dominated by death?

6. To what extent do you agree that Auden’s poetry is largely about human suffering?

7. How far do you agree that Auden’s narratives are always very different from each other?

8. To what extent do you think that Auden’s poems are more pessimistic than optimistic?

 To be handed in on Tuesday 12 March.