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AQA English Literature Unseen Poetry Study and Exam Practice: York Notes for GCSE (9-1)

AQA English Literature Unseen Poetry Study and Exam Practice: York Notes for GCSE (9-1)

Mary Green

(2018)

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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
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