Edexcel GCSE English Literature Paper 2: 19th-century Novel and Poetry since 1789 June 2017 question paper 1ET0/02

Explore how Brontë presents Jane’s bravery in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Jane thinks that Grace Poole is in the gallery.

Explain how Grace Poole is presented elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• who Grace Poole is and what she does

• Jane’s impressions of Grace Poole.

Explore how Dickens presents the weather in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Pip describes an area of London.

Explain how settings are important elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• the different locations

• how important they are in the novel.

Explore how Stevenson presents Jekyll’s request for help in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Jekyll asks Lanyon for help.

Explain how characters try to help others elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• who needs, gives or offers the help

• how help is accepted or rejected.

Explore how Dickens presents the two children, Ignorance and Want, in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Scrooge is shocked by the appearance of the children.

Explain how children are portrayed elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• who the children are

• what life is like for these children.

Explore how Austen presents the reactions to Elizabeth’s engagement to Darcy in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, letters are sent and received.

Explain the importance of letters elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• who sends the letters

• why the letters are important.

Explore how Eliot presents Silas Marner’s obsession with money in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Silas Marner keeps the location of his money a secret.

Explain the importance of secrets elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• who has secrets

• the effects that secrets have on the characters.

Explore how Shelley presents the creature’s experiences in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, the creature is lonely and isolated.

Explain the importance of loneliness elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• characters who are lonely or isolated

• why these characters are lonely.

8 Re-read Valentine. Choose one other poem from the Relationships anthology.

Compare how strong feelings are presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• the influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

La Belle Dame Sans Merci – John Keats A Child to his Sick Grandfather – Joanna Baillie She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron A Complaint – William Wordsworth Neutral Tones – Thomas Hardy Sonnet 43 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning My Last Duchess – Robert Browning 1st Date – She and 1st Date – He – Wendy Cope Valentine – Carol Ann Duffy One Flesh – Elizabeth Jennings i wanna be yours – John Cooper Clarke Love’s Dog – Jen Hadfield Nettles – Vernon Scannell The Manhunt – Simon Armitage My Father Would Not Show Us – Ingrid de Kok

9 Re-read Belfast Confetti. Choose one other poem from the Conflict anthology.

Compare how the experience of conflict is presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• the influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

A Poison Tree – William Blake The Destruction of Sennacherib – Lord Byron Extract from The Prelude – William Wordsworth The Man He Killed – Thomas Hardy Cousin Kate – Christina Rossetti Half-caste – John Agard Exposure – Wilfred Owen The Charge of the Light Brigade – Alfred, Lord Tennyson Catrin – Gillian Clarke War Photographer – Carole Satyamurti Belfast Confetti – Ciaran Carson The Class Game – Mary Casey Poppies – Jane Weir No Problem – Benjamin Zephaniah What Were They Like? – Denise Levertov

10 Re-read Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan. Choose one other poem from the Time and Place anthology.

Compare how different senses are used in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• the influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

To Autumn – John Keats Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 – William Wordsworth London – William Blake I started Early – Took my Dog – Emily Dickinson Where the Picnic was – Thomas Hardy Adlestrop – Edward Thomas Home Thoughts from Abroad – Robert Browning First Flight – U.A. Fanthorpe Stewart Island – Fleur Adcock Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan – Moniza Alvi Hurricane Hits England – Grace Nichols Nothing’s Changed – Tatamkhulu Afrika Postcard from a Travel Snob – Sophie Hannah In Romney Marsh – John Davidson Absence – Elizabeth Jennings

11 Compare the ways the writers present cats in Poem 1: Cat and Poem 2: Cats.

In your answer, you should compare:

• the ideas in the poems

• the poets’ use of language

• the poets’ use of form and structure.

Use evidence from the poems to support your comparison.