Year 12 AS English Literature
Revision Guide
Unit 1: ‘Texts in Context’
Option A: World War One Literature
Examination date: 16th May 2014
Examination information:
Time allowed: 2 hours
Maximum mark: 90 marks
Question 1: 45 marks (Mrs Old)
Question 2: 45 marks (Miss Richley
Material from your wider reading may not be taken into the examination room apart from clean copies of the poetry texts prescribed for this
paper.
You will be marked on your ability to:
Use good English
Organise information clearly
Use specialist vocabulary where appropriate
Reading
Question 1: You will be given one item taken from the prescribed area of study, ‘World War One Literature’. You will use this item to answer
question one.
In your response to this section of the paper you must refer to your wider reading across all three genres (prose, poetry and drama). You may
also refer to your AS coursework texts.
Remember question 1 is always:
How does the writer present her thoughts and feelings about World War One?
How far is the extract similar to and different from your wider reading in the literature of World war One?
Wider reading
Both questions test your wider reading in the prescribed area of study, ‘Love through the Ages’. In total, across both questions, you should
write a minimum of one wider reading text from each of the three genres.
Planning.
It is recommended that for each question you spend around 10 minutes planning your response.