BOOK
AQA English Literature Unseen Poetry Study and Exam Practice: York Notes for GCSE (9-1)
(2018)
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Book Details
Abstract
Exam Board: AQA
Academic Level: GCSE (9-1)
Subject: English Language and Literature
First teaching: September 2015
First Exams: Summer 2017
To achieve top grades in your AQA English Literature exam, you need to approach Unseen poetry with confidence and master all the key skills examiners are looking for. With everything you need right at hand, this York Notes AQA Unseen Poetry: Study and Exam Practice guide gives you all the tools you need to study and practice Unseen poetry and perform at your best in the exam.
Understand and analyse – With 20 practice poems, printed in full with expert annotations and support, you will learn step-by-step how to understand, analyse and write about unseen poetry.
Practise all the key skills – Tasks focusing on Voice and viewpoint, Form, Structure and Language, and similarities and differences, will help you to learn and practise the key skills.
Check your progress – Use the regular exam-style ‘Worked tasks’ to test what you can do and ‘Progress check’ bullets to monitor what you have achieved.
Feel ready for the exam – Key features linked to the Assessment Objectives, longer exam-style ‘Practice papers’ and annotated sample answers at different levels, will help you to be exam-ready and confident.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Front Cover | Front Cover | ||
Contents | 3 | ||
Part One: Getting Started | 5 | ||
Preparing for assessment | 5 | ||
Introduction to Paper 2, Section C: Unseen poetry | 7 | ||
Part Two: Reading ‘Unseen’ Poems | 8 | ||
Question 1 – the first unseen poem | 8 | ||
Guide to poetic techniques | 9 | ||
How to annotate a poem | 17 | ||
How to use quotations | 19 | ||
Voice and perspective | 20 | ||
Form and structure | 22 | ||
Language | 24 | ||
Worked task | 26 | ||
Progress check | 28 | ||
Part Three: Comparing ‘Unseen’ Poems | 29 | ||
Question 2 – comparing the poems | 29 | ||
Similarities | 32 | ||
Differences | 36 | ||
Worked task | 40 | ||
Progress check | 43 | ||
Part Four: Sample Papers, Answers and Practice Tasks | 44 | ||
How to use this section | 44 | ||
Sample paper, Question 1 | 45 | ||
Annotated sample answers | 46 | ||
Sample paper, Question 2 | 52 | ||
Annotated sample answers | 54 | ||
Assess yourself | 59 | ||
Practice paper 1 | 60 | ||
Practice paper 2 | 62 | ||
Practice paper 3 | 64 | ||
Part Five: Literary Terms and Answers | 66 | ||
Literary terms | 66 | ||
Answers | 68 | ||
Back Cover | Back Cover |