AQA English Literature!

[Meanies]

I had it today.

I found it so easy. The book one was just about the first 3/4 pages of the book, the poem one I chose was about how relationships are explored... which they are in pretty much all the poems we did (if not all).

I was a bit worried going into it by the fact I barely knew the novel all the way through, then seeing that question I was a bit relieved.

Wrote to the bottom of page 9

[iknowkungfu]

I thought Lord of the flies was fairly easy with the character one of Piggy. Poetry I thought I did the best in, despite me thinking that was the one I was going to do ****test in.

same... i'd only read 4 chapters and found the lord of the flies one easy enough.

[Ugawa]

I did my English Literature GCSE two years ago now. I studied Journey's End and an anthology of different poems. I got an A. Extremely easy with the poetry, just write everything you know about the two key poems you'll be asked to analyse in the exam. Look at them in your book or whatever and just completely take the words apart and intepret by annotating. When you're done, just turn everything you noted down into structured sentences and hey-presto. That's what I did.

You can't do that anymore though, you have to use an anthology the school puts on the desk. You can't bring your own in anymore so you have to remember everything it's annoyin lol

XX

[mangle]

I just remembered a few key phrases like assonance, sibilance, microchosm;macrochosm etc.

Then you can apply them to most poems.

[Frodo13.]

You can't do that anymore though, you have to use an anthology the school puts on the desk. You can't bring your own in anymore so you have to remember everything it's annoyin lol

XX

Thats better I'd say, otherwise you'll just write all your notes down.

[Ailerons]

I done the 'choose two characters' question on Of Mice and Men - chose Curley's Wife and Crooks...and for the second poems one I chose the male and female speakers question and I compared Havisham and Laboratory for the female speaker and Homecoming and Sonnet 130 for the other!

I only wrote 6 pages though lol.

[Ewss]

I did the Simon question for lord of the flies, i couldn't really thing of much to write but i remembered golding's message which i normally forget so it's all good.
And for the poems i did the relationship question and wrote abouttt mother any distance (had to), on my first sonne, anne hathaway and sonnet 130

[benn!]

I did Of Mice and Men character question. I picked Curley's wife and Crooks. woooo talking about discrimination!!

I also did the Duffy/Armitage question and it was about relationships so I picked: Mother any Distance (had to do this one), Before you were mine, My Last Duchess and On my First Sonne. Turns out my friend picked the exact same as me

i did exactly the same, except when it came to duffy/armitage/pre1914 bank, i did the presentation of males and females in kid, sonnet 130, havisham and the laboratory.

[Immenseman]

So there's quite a few of us who picked the same question then picked the same two characters. I just picked them because I knew I could write more detailed points about Curley's wife and Crooks.

[Grindle-lad]

Did anybody else do 'To Kill a Mockingbird?' I thought both questions looked pretty easy but went for the one on the court trial.

As for the poetry, I did Heaney/Clarke and did the 'write about 4 poems in the anthology that you enjoyed', which was a really good, open question!