Edexcel GCSE English Literature Paper 2: 19th-century Novel and Poetry since 1789 June 2024 question paper 1ET0/02

Explore how Brontë presents the red-room in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Jane describes the setting of the red-room.

Explain how settings are important elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• at least two different locations

• how important these locations are.

Explore how Dickens presents Pip’s meeting with the convict in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Pip is scared of the man.

Explain how fear is shown elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• who shows fear

• when fear is shown.

Explore how Stevenson presents Doctor Lanyon in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Lanyon is close to death.

Explain how death is explored elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• who dies and how

• the effect these deaths have on other characters.

Explore how Dickens presents Scrooge in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Scrooge expresses his happiness.

Explain how happiness is portrayed elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• who shows happiness

• what makes these characters happy.

Explore how Austen presents Mr. Darcy in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, first impressions of Mr. Darcy are not favourable.

Explain how first impressions are presented elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• what first impressions are made

• how some first impressions change.

Explore how Eliot presents Godfrey Cass in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, the truth about Dunstan is revealed and Godfrey is going to tell Nancy the truth about his past.

Explain how truth is revealed elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• who lies or keeps secrets

• how, when or if the truth is revealed.

Explore how Shelley presents Victor Frankenstein’s reactions to his creature in this extract.

Give examples from the extract to support your ideas.

In this extract, Frankenstein has a horrific dream.

Explain how horror is shown elsewhere in the novel.

In your answer, you must consider:

• when horror occurs

• the chain of horrific events.

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

Compare how a relationship between two people 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

9 Re-read The Class Game. Choose one other poem from the Conflict anthology.

Compare the differences between people 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 – 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 First Flight. Choose one other poem from the Time and Place anthology.

Compare how travelling 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 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 Re-read Peckham Rye Lane. Choose one other poem from the Belonging anthology.

Compare how a location is described 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 My Sister – William Wordsworth Sunday Dip – John Clare Mild the Mist Upon the Hill – Emily Brontë Captain Cook (To My Brother) – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Clear and Gentle Stream – Robert Bridges I Remember, I Remember – Thomas Hood Island Man – Grace Nichols We Refugees – Benjamin Zephaniah Peckham Rye Lane – A. K. Blakemore Us – Zaffar Kunial In Wales, Wanting to be Italian – Imtiaz Dharker Kumukanda – Kayo Chingonyi Jamaican British – Raymond Antrobus My Mother’s Kitchen – Choman Hardi The Émigrée – Carol Rumens

12 Compare the ways the writers present photographs in Poem 1: Not Yet My Mother and Poem 2: On Finding an Old Photograph.

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.