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GCSE ENGLISH

LiteratureMOCK EXAM

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AO1 12 marks: Respond to an extract from the novel to develop an informed personal response. You must use textual references, including quotations, to support your ideas.AO2 12 marks: Analyse the language, form and structure used by the writer to create meaning and effects . Use relevant subject terminology to support your analysis.AO3 6 marks: Show your understanding of how contextual factors influence our understanding of the novel.

AO1 12 mark:Respond to an extract from the play to develop an informed personal response. You must use textual references, including quotations, to support your ideas.AO2 12 marks:Analyse the language, form and structure used by the writer to create meaning and effects . Use relevant subject terminology to support your analysis.AO3 6 marks:Show your understanding of how contextual factors influence our understanding of the play. AO4 4 marks:Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity and effect.

You will answer one essay question on A Christmas Carol:• You will be required to write in detail about a given extract from the

novel.• You must focus on a detailed analysis of the language and techniques

that Conan Doyle uses. • You will also need to make sure you link your points and analysis to

the wider context of the novel. You may be asked to write about: character, theme, imagery, language and/or structure, so will need to have knowledge and understanding of them all.

You will answer one essay question on Romeo and Juliet:1. First you will need to write about a given extract from the play. You must focus

on a detailed analysis of Shakespeare’s choice of language and the techniques he uses. You must use quotations to support your response. Try to make links to the wider context in your response.

2. Secondly, you will need to refer to the wider play as a whole. You must select key moments and analyse them in detail.

You will be assessed for spelling, punctuation and grammar in this section only.You may be asked to write about: character, theme, imagery, language and/or structure, so will need to have knowledge and understanding of them all.

Section B: 19th Century novel 30 marks 50 minsSection A: Shakespeare 34 marks 50 mins + 5 mins SPaG check

English Literature Paper 1 64 marks 40% of Literature GCSE 1 hour 45 mins

ROMEO AND JULIET

Romeo and Juliet

Read the following extract from Act 2 Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question that follows.

At this point in the play Romeo tells Friar Laurence that he now loves Juliet. FRIAR LAURENCE Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,So soon forsaken? young men's love then liesNot truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine 5Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!How much salt water thrown away in waste,To season love, that of it doth not taste!The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears; 10Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sitOf an old tear that is not wash'd off yet:If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine,Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline:And art thou changed? pronounce this sentence then, 15Women may fall, when there's no strength in men.ROMEO Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline.FRIAR LAURENCE For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.ROMEO And bad'st me bury love.FRIAR LAURENCE Not in a grave, 20To lay one in, another out to have.ROMEO I pray thee, chide not; she whom I love nowDoth grace for grace and love for love allow;The other did not so.FRIAR LAURENCE O, she knew well 25

Thy love did read by rote and could not spell.But come, young waverer, come, go with me,In one respect I'll thy assistant be;For this alliance may so happy prove,To turn your households' rancour to pure love. 30

Starting with this conversation, explain how far you think Shakespeare presents Friar Laurence as a good friend to Romeo and a peacemaker.

Write about: • how Shakespeare presents Friar Laurence in this extract • how Shakespeare presents Friar Laurence in the play as a whole.

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Romeo and Juliet

Read the following extract from Act 1 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question that follows.At this point in the play Benvolio and Romeo are discussing love.

BENVOLIO Good-morrow, cousin. ROMEO Is the day so young? BENVOLIO But new struck nine.ROMEO Ay me! sad hours seem long.BENVOLIO What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? 5ROMEO Not having that, which, having, makes them shortBENVOLIO In love?ROMEO Out— BENVOLIO Of love? ROMEO Out of her favor, where I am in love. 10BENVOLIO Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!ROMEO Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will! Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here? 15 Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. Here's much to do with hate, but more with love. Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness! serious vanity! 20 Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this. Dost thou not laugh? 25BENVOLIO No, coz, I rather weep.ROMEO Good heart, at what?BENVOLIO At thy good heart's oppression.ROMEO Why, such is love's transgression. Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, 30 Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest With more of thine. This love that thou hast shown Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; 35 Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:

What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. Farewell, my coz.

0 2Starting with this conversation, explain how you think Shakespeare presents love as a theme throughout the playWrite about:

• how Shakespeare presents love in this extract • how Shakespeare presents love in the play as a whole.

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AO4 [4 marks]Romeo and Juliet

Read the following extract from Act 4 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer thequestion that follows.

At this point in the play Juliet visits the Friar because her father has arranged for her to marry Paris, but she is already married to the banished Romeo.

ROMEO:Tell me not, Friar, that thou hearest of this,Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it.If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help,Do thou but call my resolution wise,And with this knife I'll help it presently. 5God joined my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands,And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo's sealed,Shall be the label to another deed,Or my true heart with treacherous revoltTurn to another, this shall slay them both. 10Therefore, out of thy long-experienced time,Give me some present counsel, or, behold,'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knifeShall play the umpire, arbitrating thatWhich the commission of thy years and art 15Could to no issue of true honour bring.Be not so long to speak, I long to die,If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy.

0 2Starting with this speech, explore how Shakespeare presents attitudes towards love and loyalty inRomeo and Juliet.

Write about:• what Juliet says about love in this speech• how Shakespeare uses language to present attitudes to love in the play as a

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Romeo and Juliet


At this point in the play Romeo is the tomb, about to drink the poison.

ROMEOO my love! my wife!Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yetIs crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, 5And death's pale flag is not advanced there.Ah, dear Juliet,Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believeThat unsubstantial death is amorous,And that the lean abhorred monster keeps 10Thee here in dark to be his paramour?For fear of that, I still will stay with thee;And never from this palace of dim nightDepart again: here, here will I remainWith worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here 15Will I set up my everlasting rest,And shake the yoke of inauspicious starsFrom this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O youThe doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss 20A dateless bargain to engrossing death!Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!Thou desperate pilot, now at once run onThe dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!Here's to my love! 25DrinksO true apothecary!Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.Dies

Starting with this extract, explain how Shakespeare presents Death as an inevitable consequence in the play.

Write about:

• how Shakespeare presents Romeo’s attitude to death in this extract.• how Shakespeare presents death in the play as a whole.


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At this point in the play, Tybalt is asking Mercutio where he can find Romeo.

Enter TYBALT, PETRUCHIO, and others.

BENVOLIO By my head, here comes the Capulets.

MERCUTIO By my heel, I care not.

TYBALT Follow me close, for I will speak to them.Gentlemen, good den, a word with one of you.

MERCUTIO And but one word with one of us? couple it with something, make it a word and a blow.

TYBALT You shall find me apt enough to that sir, and you will give me occasion.

MERCUTIO Could you not take some occasion without giving?

TYBALT Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo.

MERCUTIO Consort? what, dost thou make us minstrels? And thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords. Here’s my fiddlestick, here’s that shall make you dance. ‘Zounds, consort!

BENVOLIO We talk here in the public haunt of men:Either withdraw unto some private place,Or reason coldly of your grievances, Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us.

MERCUTIO Men’s eyes were made to look, and let them gaze;I will not budge for no man’s pleasure, I.

Enter ROMEO.

Starting with this conversation, explain how Shakespeare presents conflict.Write about:

how Shakespeare presents Mercutio in this extract how Shakespeare presents conflict in the play as a whole


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Romeo and Juliet


This is from the end of the play when the Prince is speaking to Capulet and Montague.

PRINCECapulet,--Montague,-- See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! And I, for winking at your discords too, Have lost a brace of kinsmen:--all are punish'd 5.

CAPULETO brother Montague, give me thy hand: This is my daughter's jointure, for no more Can I demand.

MONTAGUEBut I can give thee more: For I will raise her statue in pure gold; 10That while Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set As that of true and faithful Juliet.

CAPULETAs rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie; Poor sacrifices of our enmity! 15

PRINCEA glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished; For never was a story of more woe 20Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

Exeunt

Starting with this conversation, explain how Shakespeare presents family loyaltyWrite about:

how Shakespeare presents family loyalty in this extract how Shakespeare presents family loyalty in the play as a whole


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At this point in the play Juliet is waiting for the Nurse to come back from meeting Romeo..

JULIET

Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;

For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night

Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.

Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,

Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, 5

Take him and cut him out in little stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine

That all the world will be in love with night

And pay no worship to the garish sun.

O, I have bought the mansion of a love, 10

But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold,

Not yet enjoy'd: so tedious is this day

As is the night before some festival

To an impatient child that hath new robes

And may not wear them. O, here comes my nurse, 15

And she brings news; and every tongue that speaks

But Romeo's name speaks heavenly

Starting with this conversation, explain how Shakespeare presents attitudes towards loveWrite about:

what Juliet says about love in this speech how Shakespeare presents love in the play as a whole


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MAS CAROL

Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol

Read the following extract from stave 1 and then answer the question that follows.

In this extract, Fred and Scrooge are talking in his office.

Starting with the extract, how does Dickens present Fred?

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“Uncle!” pleaded the nephew.

“Nephew!” returned the uncle sternly, “keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.”``Keep it!'' repeated Scrooge's nephew. ``But you don't keep it.''

``Let me leave it alone, then,'' said Scrooge. ``Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!''

``There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,'' returned the nephew: ``Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!''

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Starting with the extract, how does Dickens present Christmas?

Write about: How Dickens presents Christmas in this extract How Dickens presents Christmas in the novel as a whole

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In this extract, Scrooge is talking to Marley’s ghost.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present ghosts?

Write about: How Dickens presents Marley in this extract How Dickens presents ghosts in the novel as a whole

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Scrooge fell upon his knees, and clasped his hands before his face.

``Mercy!'' he said. ``Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?''

``Man of the worldly mind!'' replied the Ghost, ``do you believe in me or not?''

`Ì do,'' said Scrooge. `Ì must. But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?''

`Ìt is required of every man,'' the Ghost returned, ``that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world -- oh, woe is me! -- and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!''

Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain, and wrung its shadowy hands.

``You are fettered,'' said Scrooge, trembling. ``Tell me why?''

`Ì wear the chain I forged in life,'' replied the Ghost. `Ì made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?''

Scrooge trembled more and more.

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Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present greed?

Write about: How Dickens presents greed in this extract How Dickens presents greed in the novel as a whole

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Charles Dickens – A Christmas CarolRead the following extract from stave 2 and then answer the question that follows.

In this extract, Scrooge is observing his younger self talking to his then fiancée, Belle.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the importance of minor characters?

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“You fear the world too much,” she answered, gently. “All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?”

“What then?” he retorted. “Even if I have grown so much wiser, what then? I am not changed towards you.”

She shook her head.

“Am I?”

“Our contract is an old one. It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry. You are changed. When it was made, you were another man.”

“I was a boy,” he said impatiently.

“Your own feeling tells you that you were not what you are,” she returned. “I am. That which promised happiness when we were one in heart, is fraught with misery now that we are two. How often and how keenly I have thought of this, I will not say. It is enough that I have thought of it, and can release you.”

“Have I ever sought release?”

“In words. No. Never.”

“In what, then?”

“In a changed nature; in an altered spirit; in another atmosphere of life; another Hope as its great end. In everything that made my love of any worth or value in your sight. If this had never been between us,” said the girl, looking mildly, but with steadiness, upon him; “tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now? Ah, no!”

He seemed to yield to the justice of this supposition, in spite of himself. But he said with a struggle, “You think not.”

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How Dickens present Belle in this extract How Dickens presents minor characters in the novel as a whole

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the importance of isolation?

Write about: How Dickens present isolation in this extract How Dickens presents isolation in the novel as a whole

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In this extract, Scrooge is observing the Cratchit family on Christmas day.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the Cratchits?

Write about: How Dickens present Bob in this extract How Dickens presents the Cratchit family in the novel as a whole

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Martha didn't like to see him disappointed, if it were only in joke; so she came out prematurely from behind the closet door, and ran into his arms, while the two young Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim, and bore him off into the wash-house, that he might hear the pudding singing in the copper.

`Ànd how did little Tim behave?'' asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart's content.

`Às good as gold,'' said Bob, `ànd better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.''

Bob's voice was tremulous when he told them this, and trembled more when he said that Tiny Tim was growing strong and hearty. He seemed to yield to the justice of this supposition, in spite of himself. But he said with a struggle, “You think not.”

His active little crutch was heard upon the floor, and back came Tiny Tim before another word was spoken, escorted by his brother and sister to his stool before the fire; and while Bob, turning up his cuffs—as if, poor fellow, they were capable of being made more shabby—compounded some hot mixture in a jug with gin and lemons, and stirred it round and round and put it on the hob to simmer; Master Peter, and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high procession.

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Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present social disadvantage?

Write about: How Dickens present disadvantage in this extract How Dickens presents the social disadvantage in the novel as a whole



In this extract, Scrooge is talking to some charity collectors in his office.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present Scrooge?

Write about: How Dickens presents Scrooge in this extract

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`Àt this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,'' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, `ìt is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.''

“What shall I put you down for?''

``Nothing!'' Scrooge replied.

``You wish to be anonymous?''

`Ì wish to be left alone,'' said Scrooge. ``Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.''

``Many can't go there; and many would rather die.''

`Ìf they would rather die,'' said Scrooge, ``they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Besides -- excuse me -- I don't know that.''

``But you might know it,'' observed the gentleman.

`Ìt's not my business,'' Scrooge returned. `Ìt's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!''

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Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present social responsibility?

Write about: How Dickens presents charity in this extract How dickens present social responsibility in the novel as a whole



In this extract, Scrooge meets the Ghost of Christmas Present.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the ghosts?

Write about: How Dickens presents the Ghost of Christmas Present in this extract

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“I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,” said the Spirit. “Look upon me!”

Scrooge reverently did so. It was clothed in one simple green robe, or mantle, bordered with white fur. This garment hung so loosely on the figure, that its capacious breast was bare, as if disdaining to be warded or concealed by any artifice. Its feet, observable beneath the ample folds of the garment, were also bare; and on its head it wore no other covering than a holly wreath, set here and there with shining icicles. Its dark brown curls were long and free; free as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its cheery voice, its unconstrained demeanour, and its joyful air. Girded round its middle was an antique scabbard; but no sword was in it, and the ancient sheath was eaten up with rust.

“You have never seen the like of me before!” exclaimed the Spirit.

“Never,” Scrooge made answer to it.

“Have never walked forth with the younger members of my family; meaning (for I am very young) my elder brothers born in these later years?” pursued the Phantom.

“I don’t think I have,” said Scrooge. “I am afraid I have not. Have you had many brothers, Spirit?”

“More than eighteen hundred,” said the Ghost.

“A tremendous family to provide for!” muttered Scrooge.

The Ghost of Christmas Present rose.

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Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present Christmas?

Write about: How Dickens presents the Ghost of Christmas Present in this extract How Dickens present Christmas in the novel as a whole



In this extract, Scrooge is speaking to the Ghost of Christmas Past at Fezziwig’s party.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the minor characters?

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How Dickens present Fezziwig in this extract How does Dickens present the minor characters in the novel as a whole

When the clock struck eleven, this domestic ball broke up. Mr and Mrs Fezziwig took their stations, one on either side of the door, and shaking hands with every person individually as he or she went out, wished him or her a Merry Christmas. When everybody had retired but the two 'prentices, they did the same to them; and thus the cheerful voices died away, and the lads were left to their beds; which were under a counter in the back-shop.

`À small matter,'' said the Ghost, ``to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.''

``Small!'' echoed Scrooge.

The Spirit signed to him to listen to the two apprentices, who were pouring out their hearts in praise of Fezziwig: and when he had done so, said,

``Why! Is it not? He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money: three or four perhaps. Is that so much that he deserves this praise?''

`Ìt isn't that,'' said Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter, self. `Ìt isn't that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.'' “More than eighteen hundred,” said the Ghost.

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Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present social responsibility?

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How Dickens present Fezziwig in this extract How does Dickens present the social responsibility in the novel as a whole

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In this extract, Scrooge is in his bedroom with the ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present Scrooge as isolated?

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How Dickens present Scrooge in this extract How Dickens present Scrooge in the novel as a whole

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present isolation?

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``Spirit!'' said Scrooge, shuddering from head to foot. ``I see, I see. The case of this unhappy man might be my own. My life tends that way, now. Merciful Heaven, what is this!''

He recoiled in terror, for the scene had changed, and now he almost touched a bed: a bare, uncurtained bed: on which, beneath a ragged sheet, there lay a something covered up, which, though it was dumb, announced itself in awful language.

The room was very dark, too dark to be observed with any accuracy, though Scrooge glanced round it in obedience to a secret impulse, anxious to know what kind of room it was. A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed; and on it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man.

Scrooge glanced towards the Phantom. Its steady hand was pointed to the head. The cover was so carelessly adjusted that the slightest raising of it, the motion of a finger upon Scrooge's part, would have disclosed the face. He thought of it, felt how easy it would be to do, and longed to do it; but had no more power to withdraw the veil than to dismiss the spectre at his side.

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In this extract, Scrooge is listening to some business men talking.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present greed?

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“No,” said a great fat man with a monstrous chin, “I don’t know much about it, either way. I only know he’s dead.”

“When did he die?” inquired another.

“Last night, I believe.”

“Why, what was the matter with him?” asked a third, taking a vast quantity of snuff out of a very large snuff-box. “I thought he’d never die.”

“God knows,” said the first, with a yawn.

“What has he done with his money?” asked a red-faced gentleman with a pendulous excrescence on the end of his nose, that shook like the gills of a turkey-cock.

“I haven’t heard,” said the man with the large chin, yawning again. “Left it to his company, perhaps. He hasn’t left it to me. That’s all I know.”

This pleasantry was received with a general laugh.

“It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral,” said the same speaker; “for upon my life I don’t know of anybody to go to it. Suppose we make up a party and volunteer?”

“I don’t mind going if a lunch is provided,” observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose. “But I must be fed, if I make one.”

Another laugh.

“Well, I am the most disinterested among you, after all,” said the first speaker, “for I never wear black gloves, and I never eat lunch. But I’ll offer to go, if anybody else will. When I come to think of it, I’m not at all sure that I wasn’t his most particular friend; for we used to stop and speak whenever we met. Bye, bye!”

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In this extract, Scrooge is observing the Cratchit family on Christmas day.

Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present poverty?

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How Dickens presents the Cratchits in this extract How Dickens presents poverty in the novel as a whole

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Bob Cratchit told them how he had a situation in his eye for Master Peter, which would bring in, if obtained, full five-and-sixpence weekly. The two young Cratchits laughed tremendously at the idea of Peter’s being a man of business; and Peter himself looked thoughtfully at the fire from between his collars, as if he were deliberating what particular investments he should favour when he came into the receipt of that bewildering income. Martha, who was a poor apprentice at a milliner’s, then told them what kind of work she had to do, and how many hours she worked at a stretch, and how she meant to lie abed to-morrow morning for a good long rest; to-morrow being a holiday she passed at home. Also how she had seen a countess and a lord some days before, and how the lord “was much about as tall as Peter;” at which Peter pulled up his collars so high that you couldn’t have seen his head if you had been there. All this time the chestnuts and the jug went round and round; and by-and-bye they had a song, about a lost child travelling in the snow, from Tiny Tim, who had a plaintive little voice, and sang it very well indeed.

There was nothing of high mark in this. They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker’s. But, they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit’s torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last.

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AN INSPEC

TOR CALLS

How and why does Sheila change?

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• how Sheila responds to her family and to the Inspector

• how Priestley presents Sheila by the ways he writes


How does Priestley present Mr Birling?

Write about:

• how Mr Birling responds to her family and to the Inspector

• how Priestley presents Mr Birling by the ways he writes

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What lessons do we learn through the character of Gerald?

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• how Gerald behaves throughout the play

• how Priestley presents Gerald by the ways he writes


How does Priestley present Mr Birling?

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• how Mrs Birling responds to the Inspector

• how Priestley presents Mrs Birling by the ways he writes


What lessons do we learn through the character of the Inspector?

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• how the Inspector speaks to the family

• how Priestley presents the Inspector by the ways he writes


How does Priestley present Eric?

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• how Eric responds to her family and to the Inspector

• how Priestley presents Eric by the ways he writes


How does Priestley explore the class divide in the play?

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• the ideas about social class in An Inspector Calls

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• how Priestley presents these ideas by the ways he writes.


How does Priestley present guilt and responsibility?

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• the ideas about guilt and responsibility in An Inspector Calls



What lessons do we learn about responsibility?

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• the ideas about responsibility in An Inspector Calls



How does Priestley explore conflict in the play?

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• the ideas about conflict in An Inspector Calls



‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people’. How does Priestley examine attitudes to social class?

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• the ideas about social class in An Inspector Calls


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How does Priestley show the differences between the older and younger generations in this play?

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• the ideas about the older and younger generations in An Inspector Calls



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Love Poetry

Compare how poets present attitudes towards a parent in ‘Follower’ and in one other poem from ‘Love and relationships’.

My father worked with a horse-plough,His shoulders globed like a full sail strungBetween the shafts and the furrow.The horse strained at his clicking tongue.

An expert. He would set the wingAnd fit the bright steel-pointed sock.The sod rolled over without breaking.

[30 marks]

Compare how poets present attitudes towards changing relationships in ‘Mother, any distance’ and in one other poem from ‘Love and relationships’.

Seamus Heaney

Follower

My father worked with a horse-plough,His shoulders globed like a full sail strungBetween the shafts and the furrow.The horse strained at his clicking tongue.

An expert. He would set the wingAnd fit the bright steel-pointed sock.The sod rolled over without breaking.

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Compare how poets present attitudes towards the memory of love in ‘Eden Rock’ and in one other poem from ‘Love and relationships’.

Mother, any distance

Mother, any distance greater than a single span

requires a second pair of hands.

You come to help me measure windows, pelmets, doors,

the acres of the walls, the prairies of the floors.

You at the zero-end, me with the spool of tape, recording

length, reporting metres, centimetres back to base, then leaving

up the stairs, the line still feeding out, unreeling

years between us. Anchor. Kite.

I space-walk through the empty bedrooms, climb

the ladder to the loft, to breaking point, where something

has to give;

two floors below your fingertips still pinch

the last one-hundredth of an inch...I reach

towards a hatch that opens on an endless sky

to fall or fly.

Simon Armitage

[30 marks]

Compare how poets present attitudes towards the romantic difficulties in ‘Winter Swans’ and in one other poem from ‘Love and relationships’.

Eden Rock

They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock:

My father, twenty-five, in the same suit

Of Genuine Irish Tweed, his terrier Jack

Still two years old and trembling at his feet.

My mother, twenty-three, in a sprigged dress

Drawn at the waist, ribbon in her straw hat,

Has spread the stiff white cloth over the grass.

Her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light.

She pours tea from a Thermos, the milk straight

From an old H.P. sauce-bottle, a screw

Of paper for a cork; slowly sets out

The same three plates, the tin cups painted blue.

The sky whitens as if lit by three suns.

My mother shades her eyes and looks my way

Over the drifted stream. My father spins

A stone along the water. Leisurely,

They beckon to me from the other bank.

I hear them call, 'See where the stream-path is!

Crossing is not as hard as you might think.'

I had not thought that it would be like this.

Charles Causley

[30 marks]

Compare how poets present attitudes towards the obsession in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and in one other poem from ‘Love and relationships’.

Winter Swans

The clouds had given their all -

two days of rain and then a break

in which we walked,

the waterlogged earth

gulping for breath at our feet

as we skirted the lake, silent and apart,

until the swans came and stopped us

with a show of tipping in unison.

As if rolling weights down their bodies to their heads

they halved themselves in the dark water,

icebergs of white feather, paused before returning again

like boats righting in rough weather.

'They mate for life' you said as they left,

porcelain over the stilling water. I didn't reply

but as we moved on through the afternoon light,

slow-stepping in the lake's shingle and sand,

I noticed our hands, that had, somehow,

swum the distance between us

and folded, one over the other,

like a pair of wings settling after flight.

Owen Sheers

Porphyria’s Lover

The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up, and all the cottage warm; Which done, she rose, and from her form Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl, And laid her soiled gloves by, untied Her hat and let the damp hair fall, And, last, she sat down by my side And called me. When no voice replied, She put my arm about her waist, And made her smooth white shoulder bare, And all her yellow hair displaced, And, stooping, made my cheek lie there, And spread, o'er all, her yellow hair, Murmuring how she loved me — she Too weak, for all her heart's endeavour, To set its struggling passion free From pride, and vainer ties dissever, And give herself to me for ever. But passion sometimes would prevail, Nor could to-night's gay feast restrain A sudden thought of one so pale For love of her, and all in vain: So, she was come through wind and rain. Be sure I looked up at her eyes Happy and proud; at last I knew Porphyria worshipped me; surprise Made my heart swell, and still it grew While I debated what to do. That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I wound Three times her little throat around, And strangled her. No pain felt she; I am quite sure she felt no pain.

As a shut bud that holds a bee, I warily oped her lids: again Laughed the blue eyes without a stain. And I untightened next the tress About her neck; her cheek once more Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss:

[30 marks]

Compare how poets present attitudes towards the romantic love in ‘Love’s Philosophy’ and in one other poem from ‘Love and relationships’.

As a shut bud that holds a bee, I warily oped her lids: again Laughed the blue eyes without a stain. And I untightened next the tress About her neck; her cheek once more Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss:

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Love’s Philosophy

The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?—

See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

UNSEEN

POETRY

2 7 .1In, ‘All Grown Up’, how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about her child?

[24 marks]

All Grown Up

Today you can be my flowerand tomorrow be my song,Next year will come too quicklythough now it seems so long.I remember when you'd get a bookand have me read aloud,I remember when I'd pick you upto see beyond the crowd.I remember when you hugged me tight,and when you held my hand,just a tiny little miracle

In both, ‘To My Grown Up Child’ and ‘All Grown Up’, the speakers describe feelings about watching someone they love grow up. What are the similarities and/or

differences between the ways the poets present those feelings?

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All Grown Up

Today you can be my flowerand tomorrow be my song,Next year will come too quicklythough now it seems so long.I remember when you'd get a bookand have me read aloud,I remember when I'd pick you upto see beyond the crowd.I remember when you hugged me tight,and when you held my hand,just a tiny little miracle

To My Grown Up Child

My hands were busy through the day;I didn’t have much time to playThe little games you asked me to.I didn’t have much time for you.

I’d wash your clothes, I’d sew and cook,But when you’d bring your picture bookAnd ask me please to share your funI’d say: “A little later, son.”

I’d tuck you in all safe at night

2 7 .2

2 7 .1In, ‘Tramp’, how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about homeless people?

[24 marks]

To My Grown Up Child

My hands were busy through the day;I didn’t have much time to playThe little games you asked me to.I didn’t have much time for you.

I’d wash your clothes, I’d sew and cook,But when you’d bring your picture bookAnd ask me please to share your funI’d say: “A little later, son.”

I’d tuck you in all safe at night

Tramp

This mad prophetgibbers* mid-traffic,wringing his handswhilst mouthing at heaven.

No messages for us.His conversation is simplya passage through time.

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In both, ‘Decomposition’ and ‘Tramp’, the speakers describe feelings about watching a homeless person. What are the similarities and/or differences between the ways the

poets present those feelings?

[8 marks]

Tramp

This mad prophetgibbers* mid-traffic,wringing his handswhilst mouthing at heaven.

No messages for us.His conversation is simplya passage through time.

Decomposition

I have a picture I took in Bombayof a beggar asleep on the pavement:grey-haired, wearing shorts and a dirty shirt,his shadow thrown aside like a blanket.

His arms and legs could be cracks in the stone;routes for the ants’ journeys, the flies’descents.brain-washed by the sun into exhaustion,he lies veined into stone, a fossil man.

Behind him, there is a crowd passingly

2 7 .2

Decomposition

I have a picture I took in Bombayof a beggar asleep on the pavement:grey-haired, wearing shorts and a dirty shirt,his shadow thrown aside like a blanket.

His arms and legs could be cracks in the stone;routes for the ants’ journeys, the flies’descents.brain-washed by the sun into exhaustion,he lies veined into stone, a fossil man.

Behind him, there is a crowd passingly

In, ‘Rejection’, how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about lost love?

[24 marks]

2 7 .1

In both, ‘Years Ago’ and ‘Rejection’, the speakers describe feelings about remembering a past relationship. What are the similarities and/or differences between

the ways the poets present those feelings?

Rejection

Rejection is orangeNot, as one might think,Grey and nondescript.It is the vivid orange ofA council worker’s jacket.A coat of shame that says‘he doesn’t want you.’

Rejection tastes like ashesAcrid, bitter.It soundsLike the whisper of voicesBehind my back.‘He didn’t want her.He dumped her.’It feelsLike the scraping of fingernailsOn a blackboard,Not ache or stab of painBut like havinga layer of skin missing.Rejection looks like - me,I suppose.

Slightly leftoverLike the last, curled sandwichWhen all the guestsHave gone.

Jenny Sullivan

2 7 .2

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Years Ago

It was what we did not do that I remember,places with no markers left by us,All of a summer, meeting every day,A memorable summer of hot days,Day after day of them, evening after evening.Sometimes we would laze

Upon the river-bank, just touching handsOr stroking one another’s arms with grasses.Swans floated by seeming to assertTheir dignity. But we too had our ownDecorum* in the small-change of first love.

Nothing was elegiac* or nostalgic,We threw time in the river as we threwBreadcrumbs to an inquisitive duck, and soDay entered evening with a sweeping gesture,Idly we talked of food and where to go.

This is the love that I knew long ago.Before possession, passion, and betrayal..*Decorum - suitable behaviour*elegiac - mournful or sad

Elizabeth Jennings

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