Historicist study of love exam tips

Exam tips

• Shakespeare dramatic genre A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to connect passage detail to the play as a whole and to the conventions of its dramatic form..

  This protects unseen passage evidence vs prepared set-text material, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Shakespeare dramatic genre A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to distinguish character, speaker, narrator, playwright and audience when analysing drama..

  This protects writer vs narrator, and poet vs speaker, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Unseen poetry comparison A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to build a comparative argument from two supplied unseen poems..

  This protects unseen passage evidence vs prepared set-text material, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Unseen poetry comparison A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to analyse poetic language, form and structure using precise evidence from both poems..

  This protects unseen passage evidence vs prepared set-text material, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Unseen poetry comparison A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to avoid importing prepared set-text quotations or unsupported contextual claims into the unseen response..

  This protects unseen passage evidence vs prepared set-text material, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.