Zusammenfassung der Ressource
English Literature Revision
- Texts to study
- Shakespeare -
Merchant of Venince
- 19th Century novel - Jane Eyre
- Post 1914 -
Hobson's Choice
- Anthology of poetry
- Assessment objectives
- AO1 - thoughts and opinions, back up
interpretations - quotes
- AO2 - explain how writes use
language, structure, form - what is
the effect? Use technical terms
- AO3 - How text
relates to context -
when it was
written
- AO4 - spag
- Types of questions
- Personality of character
- Mood or atmosphere
- theme or message
- attitudes towards a
theme or issue
- Relationships between
characters
- Writer's techniques
- Imagery - language to create
pictures. Adds to audience's
understanding
- similies
- Metaphors
- Personification
- Sentence structure:
- Short - builds tension,
excitement
- Long - characters
emotions
- Descriptions, setting,
atmosphere - effects
- Symbolism - themes +
additional meanings
- Speech in plays
- Dialogue - 2 or more characters -
shows characters interacting
- Monologue - 1 character
- Soliloquy - character speaks
thoughts out loud - reveals
thoughts and feelings to audience
- Aside - like soliloquy
- shorter comment
- Things to look out for in
shakespeare's plays:
- Humour - puns and jokes
- Imagery
- Striking words and phrases
- 19th Century
- Class - determined what kind of life you had
- Society
- Rich upper class - owned land, socialised
- poor working class - looked down on
- Industrial Revolution - opportunities
to make money so middle class grew in
size and influence
- Middle class relied on trade for wealth so
looked down upon by upper class
- cities overcrowded
- Led to hunger,
disease and crime
- Education
- Privledge - only wealthy families, governess
- Boys - priority
- Rich girls - taught art, music, dance
- help get a husband
- School run by church - charity
donations
- Not compulsory until 1880
- Women
dependent
on men
- Reputation important - Christianity
had influence on behaviour - bad
behaviour meant ruined reputation
- Romanticism and the Gothic genre
- Romantics - intense emotions
influenced by nature
- Gothics - mysterious location, supernatural
elements, troubling secrets, madness
- Poetry
- Language - words,
imagery, techniques
- Structure - how the poet arranges
feelings, ideas most effectively
- Form - type of poem and its features
- Form:
- Sonnet - 14 lines, regular, love
- Dramatic monologue - single persona,
implied audience
- Free verse - irregular, no set
rhythm, natural speech
- Terminology:
- Stanza - group of lines
- Tercet - 3 line stanza
- Couplet - pair of lines,
same metre
- Rhyming couplet - final words
- Rhyming triplet - final words of 3 lines
- Structure:
- How the poem progresses
- pauses and interruptions in ideas
- Changes in mood, voice, tense, rhyme scheme,
rhythm, pace
- Poetic techniques:
- Rhyme - adds power
- Rhythm alters pace and mood
- Metre - pattern of syllables
- If patterns are consistent
- rhythm is regular