Paper 1 Literary genres

Topics

Choose a topic to revise

Sample objectives

What this unit covers

• Aspects of tragedy: Explore the interplay between villains and victims in tragic texts.
• Aspects of tragedy: Analyse how a tragic protagonist is flawed, suffers and causes suffering to others.
• Aspects of tragedy: Trace movement from order to disorder and from complication to catastrophe.
• Aspects of tragedy: Evaluate the significance of violence, revenge, humour and moments of happiness within tragedy.
• Aspects of tragedy: Evaluate how tragedy may move an audience through pity and fear towards understanding of the human condition.
• Aspects of tragedy: Explain how a tragic text can act as commentary on the real world.
• Aspects of tragedy: Study the selected Shakespeare play through tragic genre, all five assessment objectives and the Paper 1 question forms.
• Aspects of tragedy: Identify Othello and King Lear as the official Shakespeare choices for Aspects of tragedy.
• Aspects of tragedy: Study the text through tragic genre and connect it with the selected drama text.
• Aspects of tragedy: Identify The Great Gatsby as an official further-text option for Aspects of tragedy.
• Aspects of tragedy: Study the text through tragic genre and connect it with the selected drama text.
• Aspects of tragedy: Identify Tess of the D'Urbervilles as an official pre-1900 further-text option for Aspects of tragedy.
• Aspects of tragedy: Identify the listed Keats poems as an official pre-1900 poetry option for Aspects of tragedy.
• Aspects of tragedy: Study how the selected poems develop and vary tragic aspects across poetry.
• Aspects of tragedy: Identify Death of a Salesman as an official drama option for Aspects of tragedy.
• Aspects of tragedy: Study the play through tragic genre and connect it with the selected Shakespeare and further text.
• Aspects of tragedy: Study the play through tragic genre and connect it with the selected Shakespeare tragedy.
• Aspects of tragedy: Identify Richard II as an official pre-1900 drama option for Aspects of tragedy.
• Aspects of tragedy: Identify the AQA English Literature B Poetry anthology for tragedy as an official poetry option.
• Aspects of tragedy: Study how the anthology poems develop and vary tragic aspects across periods and voices.
• Aspects of comedy: Evaluate how human folly, trickery and gullibility produce comic effects.
• Aspects of comedy: Explain how comic texts ridicule society and the behaviour of men and women.
• Aspects of comedy: Explore how disguise, escape and discovery contribute to comedy.
• Aspects of comedy: Evaluate how supernatural elements may support or complicate comic resolution.
• Aspects of comedy: Study the selected Shakespeare play through comic genre, all five assessment objectives and the Paper 1 question forms.
• Aspects of comedy: Identify The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night as the official Shakespeare choices for Aspects of comedy.
• Aspects of comedy: Study the text through comic genre and connect it with the selected drama text.
• Aspects of comedy: Identify Emma as an official pre-1900 further-text option for Aspects of comedy.
• Aspects of comedy: Study the text through comic genre and connect it with the selected drama text.
• Aspects of comedy: Identify The Nun's Priest's Tale including Prologue and Epilogue as an official pre-1900 option.
• Aspects of comedy: Identify She Stoops to Conquer as an official pre-1900 drama option.
• Aspects of comedy: Study the play through comic genre and connect it with the selected Shakespeare comedy.
• Aspects of comedy: Identify Small Island as an official further-text option for Aspects of comedy.
• Aspects of comedy: Study the text through comic genre and connect it with the selected drama text.
• Aspects of comedy: Study the play through comic genre and connect it with the selected Shakespeare comedy.
• Aspects of comedy: Identify The Importance of Being Earnest as an official pre-1900 drama option.
• Aspects of comedy: Identify the AQA English Literature B Poetry anthology for comedy as an official poetry option.
• Aspects of comedy: Study how the anthology poems develop and vary comic aspects across periods and voices.
• Aspects of comedy: Analyse complex plotting and sub-plots in comic texts.
• Aspects of comedy: Explain how wit and linguistic play heighten comedy.
• Paper 1 response requirements: Analyse the printed Shakespeare passage closely.
• Paper 1 response requirements: Connect passage detail to the play as a whole and the selected genre.
• Paper 1 response requirements: Use genre, context, methods, connections and interpretations to develop the argument.
• Paper 1 response requirements: Construct a focused essay on the selected Shakespeare text.
• Paper 1 response requirements: Explore significant similarities and differences rather than listing features.
• Paper 1 response requirements: Compare the two further set texts through the selected genre.