Board: AQA
Examination: English Language & Literature
Specification: GCSE 9-1 Set Text covered:
Unseen Poetry
Type: Set Text Study Guide
As you know, poetry is worth nearly 40% of your entire English
Literature AQA mark (19% anthology / 20% unseen)?
This book is here to help! Our series of study guides includes
titles especially for Paper 2 Sections B and C - Poetry, of the
closed book AQA GCSE English Literature examination.
Each study guide is written by experts in teaching English and
uses an active, stepped approach to revision to maximise learning.
This study guide provides detailed guidance about how to approach
the unseen poems and questions including five pairs of poems
that are analysed as examples to help you demonstrate your knowledge
and understanding and achieve higher marks. With loads exam-style
practice questions (and answers) you can’t go wrong!
Books in this series cover the following:
Paper
1 Section A - Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth)
Paper 1 Section B - Nineteenth-century novel (The Sign of
Four, A Christmas Carol, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde)
Paper 2 Section A - Modern texts (Blood Brothers, An
Inspector Calls)
Paper 2 Sections B and C - Poetry (Love and Relationships
anthology, Power and Conflict anthology and Unseen)
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