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Aspects of tragedy common mistakes
Use these common mistakes for Aspects of tragedy in AQA English Literature B 7717. The page is built from approved learning objectives for this topic and links back to the wider unit, topic hub, and related revision assets.
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Aspects of tragedy
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Death of a Salesman literary-analysis mistake 1
Treating Study the play through tragic genre and connect it with the selected Shakespeare and further text. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring connected comparison vs two separate mini-essays.
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.
Richard II literary-analysis mistake 1
Treating Identify Richard II as an official pre-1900 drama option for Aspects of tragedy. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring genre pattern vs fixed feature checklist.
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.
Richard II literary-analysis mistake 1
Treating Study the play through tragic genre and connect it with the selected Shakespeare tragedy. as plot summary, unsupported opinion or a place to invent quotations, while blurring connected comparison vs two separate mini-essays.
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.
AQA tragedy poetry anthology literary-analysis mistake 1
Treating Identify the AQA English Literature B Poetry anthology for tragedy as an official poetry option. 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.
AQA tragedy poetry anthology literary-analysis mistake 1
Treating Study how the anthology poems develop and vary tragic aspects across periods and voices. 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.
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