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English Literature Revision
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Content of english literature
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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
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