English Comparative: Approaching The Question
Before looking at the comparative genres with regard to your texts we are going to look at how to structure your answer appropriately so it adheres to the PCLM marking scheme that the marker...
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English Comparative: Structuring Your Answer
Clarity of Purpose This quality involves you completing the set task, here to compare your texts under a mode of comparison. The four paragraphs of your main body are where you will compare...
English Comparative: Final Things To Remember
We need to return now to a quality mentioned earlier, Efficiency of Language use. As mentioned earlier you need to use suitable language for dealing with the set task, which in part focuses ...
English Comparative: Modes Of Comparison
Cultural context What you need to compare: the unique world of each of your texts. Paragraph topics to do so: An attitude to an issue: Usually the majority of the world of a text will hol...
Prescribed Poetry: What’s Needed In Your Answer And How To Begin Planning It
What are you being asked to do? The marker is told to look for a representative selection from the work of a poet that reflects the range of the poet’s themes and interests while also exhib...
Prescribed Poetry: The Main Body Of Your Answer
Your answer should then contain a main body of at least four paragraphs, which combined should deal with the poet’s themes/ interests, style, viewpoint etc. Each of these paragraphs must als...
Prescribed Poetry: Concluding Your Answer
Coherence of delivery: The marker looks for you to consistently answer the question without disruption or interruption, hence you have to ensure that your answer does not divert from addres...
Prescribed Poetry: Things To Remember
Finally, keep these basic things in mind when answering your prescribed poetry question: Six poems The markers are told to look for evidence that you have studied six poems in your answer...
Othello: Act 1, Scene 1 – Summary & Analysis
The play opens at night, with Roderigo and Iago arguing in a Venetian street; Roderigo has been paying Iago regularly to help him begin a relationship with Desdemona, but he has learnt that ...
Othello: Act 1, Scene 2 – Summary & Analysis
Iago goes to Othello, declaring that Rogerigo betrayed him with the revelation of the marriage to Brabanzio; Iago says that Brabanzio’s upset will likely result in his divorcing the newlywed...