English Language and Literature

Revision List Personalised Revision Checklist (Pages 1-3)

What do you already know and what do you still need to

work on? Remember the skills you’ve learn are

transferable between Literature and Language! NOTE:

you will need to use your Revision Guides, Exercise

Books, Literary Terms Glossaries and Moodle, as well as

the prompts/ideas listed below.

Name: ……………………………………………… Target Grade: ……………………………….

REMEMBER: Evaluate using PECS – Powerfully, Effectively, Clearly, Cleverly, Carefully, Successfully (others: subtly, poignantly etc). Analyse using SITE – Setting, Ideas, Themes, Events (especially for the questions that don’t require you to analyse language, structure and form). Effect, Writer’s intention/purpose, Link to Question

Topics: Page 1 – ‘Macbeth’, ‘An Inspector Calls’, ‘A Christmas Carol’, Anthology Poems

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‘Macbeth’ – Q (a) Language, Structure and from Q (b) SITE/characters/themes/context

‘An Inspector Calls’ – SITE/characters/themes/context/SPaG

‘A Christmas Carol’- Q (a) Language, structure and form Q (b) SITE/characters/themes/context

Anthology Poetry: Language/Structure/Form/Context (remember Romanticism)/Quotations/comparisons

‘My Last Duchess’

‘Valentine’

‘One Flesh’

‘Nettles’

Neutral Tones

A Complaint

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

She Walks in Beauty

Sonnet 43

The Manhunt

A Child to a Sick Grandfather

My Father Would Not Show Us

i Wanna be yours

1st Date - She and 1st Date - He

Love’s Dog

English Language and Literature

Revision List Personalised Revision Checklist (Pages 1-3)

What do you already know and what do you still need to

work on? Remember the skills you’ve learn are

transferable between Literature and Language! NOTE:

you will need to use your Revision Guides, Exercise

Books, Literary Terms Glossaries and Moodle, as well as

the prompts/ideas listed below.

Name: ……………………………………………… Target Grade: ……………………………….

REMEMBER: Evaluate using PECS – Powerfully, Effectively, Clearly, Cleverly, Carefully, Successfully (others: subtly, poignantly etc). Analyse using SITE – Setting, Ideas, Themes, Events (especially for the questions that don’t require you to analyse language, structure and form). Effect, Writer’s intention/purpose, Link to Question

Topic: Page 2 – Writing - skills, purpose, form/genre, target audience, Structure and Form

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Literary Devices – Language, Structure and Form – NOTE: use your glossaries/exercise books and see notes below …

Writing Skills: Writing for purpose: Examples: persuade, argue, inform, advise, review, describe, entertain - (you need to know the conventions of these forms of writing). Form – Non-fiction examples Journals, letters, speeches, travel, articles, reports, diary autobiography, biography etc. Genres – examples Fiction/Non-fiction, Fantasy, Gothic, Comedy, Reality, History, Tragedy, Romance, Crime, Sci-fi, Autobiography, Biography etc. - Morality, fable, Allegory (hidden message, religious/spiritual/moral/political), Satire (the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize … Different Target Audiences (Language P2 - you could be asked to write for any!)

Structure: Sentence Types: declarative, interrogative, demonstrative Sentence Structures: Simple, compound, complex (multiple types) Use of tenses and verbs to create accurate sentences. Title/ Chapters/Staves Quatrain/Octave/Sestet/Volta Tone Paragraphs/Stanza Sequence – opening, middle, ending Techniques – examples -Repetition, cliff-hangers, irony, anaphora, juxtaposition/antithesis/dualism …

Form: Ballad, Sonnet (Petrarchan, Traditional), Dramatic Monologue, Monologue, Lyrical Poem, Autobiography, Narrative, Novel, Novella, Play, Soliloquy, Aside, Dialogue, Elegy, Diary, Speech, Article, Report, Letter, Conversation, Prose/Verse/Free-Verse, mis-en-abyme (the representation of the whole work embedded in a work – a story within a story). Rhythm – iambic/trochaic/pentameter/tetrameter, Rhyme – couplets, internal, half, assonance, anapaest, regular, irregular (Note: structure and form are linked/related).

English Language and Literature

Revision List Personalised Revision Checklist (Pages 1-3)

What do you already know and what do you still need to

work on? Remember the skills you’ve learn are

transferable between Literature and Language! NOTE:

you will need to use your Revision Guides, Exercise

Books, Literary Terms Glossaries and Moodle, as well as

the prompts/ideas listed below.

Name: ……………………………………………… Target Grade: ……………………………….

REMEMBER: Evaluate using PECS – Powerfully, Effectively, Clearly, Cleverly, Carefully, Successfully (others: subtly, poignantly etc). Analyse using SITE – Setting, Ideas, Themes, Events (especially for the questions that don’t require you to analyse language, structure and form). Effect, Writer’s intention/purpose, Link to Question

Narrative Voice – 1st/2nd/3rd person, omniscient (all knowing), omnipresent (always present).

Topics: Page 3 – Language and Your Additions Tick to prioritise

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Language: Word classes – examples: nouns (common, collective, concrete, abstract), verbs, adjectives, adverts, pronouns, prepositions Punctuation – examples: Capital letters, full stops, commas, apostrophes, semi-colons, colons, dashes, hyphens, parenthesis (brackets), exclamation marks Spelling- examples: i before e rule Double letter rule homophones Prefixes/suffixes – eg. – ible/able, sion/tion/cian, le/el, mis/dis/un/in Plurals: ‘ies’ instead of ‘y’ singular (family, families) Grammar – examples: tenses, syntax (word order), past/present participle, forms of different verbs …, have and of (know when to use each) Language Techniques – examples: Senses, similes, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, alliteration, sibilance, plosives, hyperbole (exaggeration), emotive, pathos (a quality that evokes pity or sadness) , bathos( an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous), logos (the Word of God, or principle of divine reason and creative order). Your Additions:

English Language and Literature

Revision List Personalised Revision Checklist (Pages 1-3)

What do you already know and what do you still need to

work on? Remember the skills you’ve learn are

transferable between Literature and Language! NOTE:

you will need to use your Revision Guides, Exercise

Books, Literary Terms Glossaries and Moodle, as well as

the prompts/ideas listed below.

Name: ……………………………………………… Target Grade: ……………………………….

REMEMBER: Evaluate using PECS – Powerfully, Effectively, Clearly, Cleverly, Carefully, Successfully (others: subtly, poignantly etc). Analyse using SITE – Setting, Ideas, Themes, Events (especially for the questions that don’t require you to analyse language, structure and form). Effect, Writer’s intention/purpose, Link to Question