Aspects of tragedy exam tips

Exam tips

• Tragic protagonists, villains and victims A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to analyse how a tragic protagonist is flawed, suffers and causes suffering to others..

  This protects analysis vs plot summary, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Tragic protagonists, villains and victims A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to explore the interplay between villains and victims in tragic texts..

  This protects analysis vs plot summary, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Tragic protagonists, villains and victims A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to examine the protagonist's movement through blindness, insight, discovery and learning..

  This protects analysis vs plot summary, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Tragic protagonists, villains and victims A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to evaluate how fate, opposition and personal choices contribute to a tragic ending..

  This protects analysis vs plot summary, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Tragic settings, structure and plotting A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to analyse how place and time shape a tragic world..

  This protects analysis vs plot summary, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Tragic settings, structure and plotting A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to trace movement from order to disorder and from complication to catastrophe..

  This protects analysis vs plot summary, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Tragic settings, structure and plotting A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to explain how plots and sub-plots intensify tragic development..

  This protects analysis vs plot summary, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Tragic settings, structure and plotting A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to evaluate the significance of violence, revenge, humour and moments of happiness within tragedy..

  This protects genre pattern vs fixed feature checklist, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Tragic language and audience response A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to analyse how language is used to heighten tragedy..

  This protects genre pattern vs fixed feature checklist, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.

• Tragic language and audience response A-Level Literature exam tip 1

  Open with a debatable literary argument, not a plot summary. Apply this to evaluate how tragedy may move an audience through pity and fear towards understanding of the human condition..

  This protects genre pattern vs fixed feature checklist, keeps AO1 to AO5 accurate and prevents invented quotations or option mixing.