English Literature · Edexcel 1ET0 · Paper 2: 19th-century Novel and Poetry since 1789 · June 2018
Explore how Brontë presents the arrival of spring at Lowood School in this extract.
Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.
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In this extract, Jane Eyre speaks of her physical pain during the winter.
Explain how Jane experiences physical and/or emotional pain elsewhere in the novel.
In your answer, you must consider:
• when Jane is in pain
• why Jane is in pain.
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Explore how Dickens presents the relationship between Joe and Pip in this extract.
Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.
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In this extract, Joe speaks of friendship.
Explain why friendship is important elsewhere in the novel.
In your answer, you must consider:
• characters who are friends
• how friendship is demonstrated.
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Explore how Stevenson presents what Utterson and Poole experience in this extract.
Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.
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In this extract, Utterson and Poole hear a sound of terror.
Explain how terror is shown elsewhere in the novel.
In your answer, you must consider:
• when terror occurs
• the effects of this terror.
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Explore how Dickens presents Scrooge’s happiness in this extract.
Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.
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In this extract, Scrooge is full of good will.
Explain how good will is portrayed elsewhere in the novel.
In your answer, you must consider:
• who is kind to others
• what these characters try to do for others.
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Explore how Austen presents the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet in this extract.
Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.
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In this extract, Mrs. Bennet talks about Mr. Bingley’s ‘large fortune’.
Explain the importance of financial wealth elsewhere in the novel.
In your answer, you must consider:
• how financial wealth is shown
• why having money is important.
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Explore how Eliot presents Eppie’s feelings about her life with Silas Marner in this extract.
Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.
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In this extract, Nancy gives advice to Eppie.
Explain how Nancy is presented elsewhere in the novel.
In your answer, you must consider:
• Nancy’s relationship with Godfrey Cass
• what Nancy says and does.
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Explore how Shelley presents Frankenstein’s experiences in this extract.
Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.
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In this extract, Frankenstein speaks about people suffering.
Explain the importance of suffering elsewhere in the novel.
In your answer, you must consider:
• characters who are unhappy or distressed
• why these characters suffer.
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8 Re-read A Complaint. Choose one other poem from the Relationships anthology.
Compare how loss is presented in the two poems.
In your answer, you should consider the:
• poets’ use of language, form and structure
• 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
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9 Re-read A Poison Tree. Choose one other poem from the Conflict anthology.
Compare how anger is presented in the two poems.
In your answer, you should consider the:
• poets’ use of language, form and structure
• 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 – Jon 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
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10 Re-read I started Early – Took my Dog. Choose one other poem from the Time and Place anthology.
Compare how a journey is presented in the two poems.
In your answer, you should consider the:
• poets’ use of language, form and structure
• 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
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11 Compare the ways the writers present the month of May in Poem 1: The Month of May and Poem 2: British Weather.
• the poets’ use of language
• the poets’ use of form and structure.
Use evidence from the poems to support your comparison.
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