Historicist study of love common mistakes

Common mistakes

• Shakespeare dramatic genre literary-analysis mistake 1

  Treating Connect passage detail to the play as a whole and to the conventions of its dramatic form. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring unseen passage evidence vs prepared set-text material.

  Fix itMake an AO1 claim, use accurate textual evidence, analyse a method for AO2, add relevant AO3 context, connect texts for AO4 and test interpretations for AO5 only where the task requires them.

• Shakespeare dramatic genre literary-analysis mistake 1

  Treating Distinguish character, speaker, narrator, playwright and audience when analysing drama. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring writer vs narrator, and poet vs speaker.

  Fix itMake an AO1 claim, use accurate textual evidence, analyse a method for AO2, add relevant AO3 context, connect texts for AO4 and test interpretations for AO5 only where the task requires them.

• Unseen poetry comparison literary-analysis mistake 1

  Treating Build a comparative argument from two supplied unseen poems. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring unseen passage evidence vs prepared set-text material.

  Fix itMake an AO1 claim, use accurate textual evidence, analyse a method for AO2, add relevant AO3 context, connect texts for AO4 and test interpretations for AO5 only where the task requires them.

• Unseen poetry comparison literary-analysis mistake 1

  Treating Analyse poetic language, form and structure using precise evidence from both poems. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring unseen passage evidence vs prepared set-text material.

  Fix itMake an AO1 claim, use accurate textual evidence, analyse a method for AO2, add relevant AO3 context, connect texts for AO4 and test interpretations for AO5 only where the task requires them.

• Unseen poetry comparison literary-analysis mistake 1

  Treating Avoid importing prepared set-text quotations or unsupported contextual claims into the unseen response. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring unseen passage evidence vs prepared set-text material.

  Fix itMake an AO1 claim, use accurate textual evidence, analyse a method for AO2, add relevant AO3 context, connect texts for AO4 and test interpretations for AO5 only where the task requires them.