Literature Exam Strategies for Success
Explore effective planning and completion strategies for English Literature exam questions, covering key texts like Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls, Power and Conflict Poetry, and Unseen Poetry. Learn how to analyze extracts, identify themes, select quotes, and structure your responses for top marks.
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English Literature How to plan and complete each question
Paper 1 Macbeth & A Christmas Carol Read the question Annotate the extract find 2 good quotes. Is the extract from the beginning, middle or end? Use the extract for one section (beginning, middle or end). Plan Introduction what is the writer s big idea about the theme from the question? What does he want the audience to learn? Beginning what happens at the beginning that shows the theme (one quote)? Middle what happens in the middle that shows the theme (one quote)? End what happens at the end that shows the theme (one quote)? Conclusion how does the theme change in whole the text? Write up each paragraph following the structure your teacher has taught you.
Paper 2 An Inspector Calls; Power and Conflict Poetry; Unseen Poetry An Inspector Calls Plan Introduction what is the writer s big idea about the theme from the question? What does he want the audience to learn? Beginning what happens at the beginning that shows the theme (2-3 quotes)? Middle what happens in the middle that shows the theme (2-3 quotes)? End what happens at the end that shows the theme (2-3 quotes)? Conclusion how does the theme change in whole the text? Write up each paragraph following the structure your teacher has taught you.
Power and Conflict Poetry Plan: Introduction what is each poet s big idea? What do they want the reader to know? Poem 1 Poem 2 your choice Quote 1 Method Quote 1 Method Quote 2 Method Quote 1 Method Write up each paragraph following the structure your teacher has taught you.
Unseen Poetry Read the question Read the poem find three good quotes to answer the question Label the quotes with the methods Write up each paragraph following the structure your teacher has taught you.
Plan: Introduction: Big idea? Writer s purpose? Beginning Quote: Method Middle: Quote Method End: Quote Method
Unseen poetry comparison Read the second poem Find one good quote to answer the question Write one paragraph on each poem use the structure you have been taught, beginning the second paragraph on the second poem with a compare word (eg Likewise/Whereas).
Extras Motifs- why are they used? What do they symbolise? Using context to enhance analysis/ideas. Biblical allusions. Structure Christianity Showing understanding of characters being concepts.
Macbeth Ride or Die Quotations! BEGINNING Act 1 thunder and lightening fair is foul and foul is fair (opening scene with witches) Brave noble lion (describing Macbeth) His virtues will plead like angels (Macbeth describing what would happen if he killed King Duncan) vaulting ambition (Macbeth) Unsex me here turn my milk to gall (Lady Macbeth s soliloquy) Act 2 A little water will clear us of this deed (Lady Macbeth after the regicide of King Duncan) Neptune s ocean (Macbeth about his guilt after committing regicide) MIDDLE Act 3 Our fears in Banquo stick deep For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck (Macbeth to Lady Macbeth whilst he plans Banquo s murder) never shake your gory locks at me (Macbeth hallucinates the ghost of Banquo) END Act 4 Modest wisdom (Malcolm initially refusing to trust Macduff due to Macbeth betraying him All my pretty ones? (Macduff about the death of his wife, children and servants) Act 5 Out, damned spot (Lady Macbeth s downfall) Butcher/ tyrant (How Macbeth is described) Turn hell hound! (Macduff confronts Macbeth before killing him)
A Christmas Carol Ride or Die Quotations! BEGINNING solitary as an oyster (describing Scrooge) prisons (Scrooge describing where those in poverty should be housed) Decrease the surplus population (Scrooge describing what those who do not wish to enter the workhouses should do) Good afternoon! (Scrooge trying to get rid of Fred) I wear the chains I forged in life (Marley s ghost) MIDDLE bright clear jet (describes the Ghost of Christmas Past) Why do you delight in torturing me? (Scrooge after Ghost of Christmas Past) Jovial (describes Ghost of Christmas Present) brave in ribbons (describes Mrs Cratchit and daughter) small pudding for a large family (describes Cratchit family) END light as a feather (Scrooge s feeling after waking up on Christmas day) Second father (Scrooge to Tiny Tim)
An Inspector Calls Ride or Die Quotations! BEGINNING Unsinkable absolutely unsinkable (Mr Birling about the Titanic) Is this the one you want me to have? (Sheila to Gerald about her engagement ring) pink intimate .brighter harder (lighting when the inspector enters) [Cutting in massively] (Interrupting the Birling s) It s my duty to keep the labour costs down (Mr Birling about firing Eva Smith) They re not cheap labour they re people (Sheila s reaction to the quote above) MIDDLE wonderful fairy prince (Sheila being sarcastic about Gerald s treatment of Daisy Renton) Run along Sheila (Mr Birling towards Sheila) Girls of that class (Mrs Birling discussing how working class girls would not refuse money) I won t believe it (Mrs Birling s reaction to Eric being the father of Eva Smith s child) My child, your grandchild (Eric s reaction to Mrs Birling s involvement in Eva s death) fire and blood and anguish (What the Inspector says society will be punished with if they do not change) We are one body (Inspector Goole) END As if it never happened (Sheila about Mr Birling s and Mrs Birling s reaction to the inspector not being real ) Joke (Mr and Mrs Birling about the Inspector s visit)
Poetry Exposure: Merciless iced east winds that knife us But nothing happens Remains: His bloody life in my bloody hands Probably armed, possibly not And the drink and drugs won t flush him out. Ozymandias Sneer of cold command Colossal wreck
London: Mind forg d manacles Blood runs down palace walls Prelude: Huge peak, black and large Trouble to my dreams My last Duchess: I gave commands then all smiles stopped The curtain I have drawn for you
COTLB: Jaws of death Rode the six hundred Storm on the Island: Spits like a tame cat turned savage Strange, it is a huge nothing we fear Bayonet charge Suddenly he awoke and was running Bullets smacking the belly out of the air
Poppies: Released a songbird from its cage Leaned against it like a wishbone War photographer: He has a job to do Home again to ordinary pain Checkin out me history: Carving out me identity Dem tell me
Kamikaze: One way journey into history My mother never spoke again Tissue: Paper that lets the light shine through Fly our lives like paper kits Emigree: Tastes of sunlight It may be sick with tyrants.
