11D2 November Exams
English Literature and English Language Revision Pack
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English Literature Exam – Paper 1
Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
You will be given two extract-based questions.
Question 1 – Macbeth (50 minutes, 34 marks)
Question 7 – Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (50 minutes, 30 marks)
How can I revise?
Re-read Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Re-read Macbeth
Learn key quotes by:
Re-writing them
Repeatedly saying them out loud – you can even rap them if you want to!
Making a bright, colourful revision poster
Using pictures, cartoons, drawings to help them stay in your head
Thinking about all the different questions each quote could be used for
e.g.
‘Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’
This could be used for a question on Lady Macbeth or Macbeth or ambition or betrayal.
English Language Exam – Paper 1
Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
Reading: 1 hour (40 marks)
You will be given one unseen fiction extract and asked 4 questions on it.
Writing: 45 minutes (40 marks)
You will be given a picture and asked to write a description OR story.
How can I revise?
Complete practice papers in timed conditions.
Practise your creative writing by choosing an image from a newspaper/magazine and writing a description/story about it.
You will need to use accurate subject terms for all your exams.
Key term / Definition / Exampleadjective
adverb
alliteration
assonance
dramatic irony
emotive language
hyperbole
imperative
metaphor
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
pathetic fallacy
personal pronouns
personification
plosive
repetition
rhetorical question
sibilance
simile
symbolism
verb
English Literature Exam
Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
You will be given two extract-based questions.
Question 1 – Macbeth (50 minutes, 34 marks)
Question 7 – Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (50 minutes, 30 marks)
Top Tips!
1)Read the question and highlight the key words – what are you being asked?
2)Annotate the extract with blinkers on
Don’t forget: accurate subject terms
what are the effects of your key words/phrases?
3)Plan bullet point 2 – list quotes you can remember from the rest of the play/book that are relevant to the question
4)Plan Intro (context)
Writing up the introduction
This is your chance to show off what you know and to pick up some marks for context.
- Summarise the character/theme you are being asked about.
- Why is it significant?
- CONTEXT
Example question and introduction
Starting with this speech, explain how far you think Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as weak?
What is LM like at the beginning of the play?
At the beginning of the play Lady Macbeth is strong, ambitious and determined.
What does she do? (brief summary)
She persuades Macbeth to murder King Duncan and criticises him when he brings the bloody daggers back.
What is LM like at the end of the play?
However, by the end of the play Lady Macbeth has descended into madness and demonstrates weakness and insanity. She is convinced she can see blood on her hands and eventually kills herself.
CONTEXT
Lady Macbeth is not a typical woman of the 11th century when the play is set. Women at the time were expected to be obedient and gentle. In contrast, Lady Macbeth is ambitious and ruthless and the driving force behind her husband’s crime.
Writing up your extract PEECs
Starting with this speech, explain how far you think Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as weak?
1)Choose your first piece of evidence
2)Write a point that uses the exact words of the question:
Lady Macbeth is presented as weak.
Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as weak.
3)Evidence – She states,’…………’
4)Explain – don’t forget accurate subject terms! – The adverb/adjective/repetition/verb/ exclamative/hyperbole ‘______’ suggests…
5)Context – clear and specific (Macbeth was written between 1603-1606 and is set around the 11th century) – Lady Macbeth is atypical / typical because …
Writing up bullet point 2
You need to make it very clear to the examiner that you are now talking about a different point in the play/novel.
You still need to PEEC in the same way, but make sure:
every point states where your evidence comes from.
every point uses the words of the question OR disagrees directly with the question – Earlier in the play, Lady Macbeth is strong
e.g.
- However earlier in the play in Act 1, Lady Macbeth…
- Although at the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth…
- After Macbeth commits the murder of King Duncan in Act 2, Lady Macbeth…
- Earlier in the play, whilst plotting the murder, Lady Macbeth …
Macbeth quotes to learn
Macbeth
‘For brave Macbeth – well he deserves that name’
LM – ‘thy nature is too full o’ the milk of human kindness’
‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle towards my hand?’
[Looking at his hands] ‘This is a sorry sight’
‘But wherefore could not I pronounce “Amen”?’
‘Macbeth does murder sleep’
‘I’ll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on’t again I dare not’
‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No’
Macbeth: ‘My name’s Macbeth’
Siward: ‘The devil himself could not pronounce a title more hateful to mine ear.’
Malcolm: ‘this dead butcher’
Lady Macbeth
‘while it was smiling in my face, have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,/ And dash'd the brains out.’
‘The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.’
‘Come, you spirits, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topful
Of direst cruelty!
‘Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’
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‘But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.’
‘These deeds must not be thought after. It will make us mad.’
‘A foolish thought to say a sorry sight.’
‘Infirm of purpose!’
‘My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white.’
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‘Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done, is done.
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‘Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!—
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Dr Jekyll
‘‘Utterson, I swear to God,’ ‘I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again.’
‘the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below’
‘There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably new, and, from its very novelty, incredibly sweet.’
‘I felt younger, lighter, happier in body;’
‘I was conscious of a heady recklessness’
‘my new power tempted me until I fell in slavery.’
‘Henry Jekyll stood at times aghast before the acts of Edward Hyde;’
‘It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty.’
‘My devil had long been caged, he came out roaring’
‘tasting delight from every blow’
‘Jekyll was now my city of refuge; let but Hyde peep out an instant, and the hands of all men would be raised to take and slay him.’
‘the horror of my other self’
Mr Hyde
‘trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground’
‘hellish to see’
‘damned Juggernaut’
‘perfectly cool’
‘black sneering coolness’
‘like Satan’
‘something displeasing, something downright detestable’
‘deformed’
‘extraordinary-looking man’
‘snarled aloud into a savage laugh’
‘extraordinary quickness’
‘pale and dwarfish’
‘impression of deformity without any nameable malformation’
‘displeasing smile’
‘murderous mixture of timidity and boldness’
‘unknown disgust, loathing and fear with which Mr Utterson regarded him’
‘the man seems hardly human!’
‘something troglodytic’
‘Satan’s signature upon a face’
‘great flame of anger’
‘like a madman’
‘ape-like fury’
‘something seizing, surprising and revolting’
Mr Utterson
‘never lighted by a smile;’
‘cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse’
‘backward in sentiment’
‘lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable’
‘something eminently human beaconed from his eye’
‘the last good influence in the lives of down-going men.’
‘he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour.’
‘still he was digging at the problem’
‘The figure haunted the lawyer all night’
‘If he be Mr Hyde,’ he thought, ‘I shall be Mr Seek.’
‘the face of Hyde sat heavy on his memory; he felt a nausea and a distaste of life’
‘What!’ he thought. ‘Henry Jekyll forge for a murderer!’ And his blood ran cold in his veins.
‘God forgive us! God forgive us!’ said Mr Utterson.
Dr Lanyon
‘He had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face.’
‘the rosy man had grown pale;’
‘his flesh had fallen away;’
‘he was visibly balder and older;’
‘some deep-seated terror of the mind.’
‘I have had a shock,’ he said, ‘and I shall never recover.’
‘he held up a trembling hand. ‘I wish to see or hear no more of Dr Jekyll,’ he said, in a loud, unsteady voice. ‘I am quite done with that person; and I beg that you will spare me any allusion to one whom I regard as dead.’
‘A week afterwards Dr Lanyon took to his bed, and in something less than a fortnight he was dead.’
‘Serve me, my dear Lanyon, and save your friend, H.J.’
‘What he told me in the next hour I cannot bring my mind to set on paper.’
‘I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened’
‘my life is shaken to its roots;’
‘sleep has left me;’
‘the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of the day and night;’
‘I feel that my days are numbered, and that I must die; and yet I shall die incredulous.’
Setting
Chapter 1 – Story of the Door
‘dingy neighbourhood’
‘a certain sinister block’
‘showed no window’
‘neither bell nor knocker’
‘blistered and distained’
Chapter 4 –The Carew Murder Case
‘fog’
‘mournful reinvasion of darkness’
‘city in a nightmare’
English Language Exam – Paper 1
Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
Reading: 1 hour (40 marks)
Writing: 45 minutes (40 marks)
Writing (45 minutes)
You will be given a picture and asked to write a description of the picture OR a story.
Top Tips!
PLAN before you start writing.
Label the picture with each section you are going to describe. Each section will be a new paragraph.
List key vocabulary/phrases you are going to use:
Sparkling like diamonds
Waves thundering against the coastline
What am I aiming to show?
five senses
varied and ambitious vocabulary
varied sentence starters
varied sentence lengths
varied paragraph starters
varied paragraph lengths
varied punctuation – (…) , ! ? : ; --
similes
metaphors
personification
pathetic fallacy
onomatopoeia
Effective opening sentences – you need to hook your reader!
Using questions
Have you ever felt petrified? I have.
Have you ever been to paradise? I have.
Creating intrigue
It happened last Tuesday. It was early evening and the sky was bruised and bleeding.
I never imagined it would turn out like this. How wrong I was.
I was 17 when I found out.
Starting in the heart of the action
His grip tightened. I felt hot, sick panic.
Starting with speech
“Don’t even think about sitting there!” he snarled.
“Stop!” he roared.
Starting with the senses
The second I stepped into that room I wanted to gag.
I could smell his fear.
The warm sand crawled between my toes, comforting and gentle.
It tasted vile!
The room filled with the small of warming butter and sugar and lemon and eggs, and at five, the timer buzzed and I pulled out the cake and placed in on the stovetop.
Don’t forget:
Proof-read your work slowly and carefully.
Check:
Writing is organised into paragraphs
Full stops
Capital letters at the start of new sentences
Small letters are used accurately
Apostrophes – it’s –means it is
“____” for speech
? for questions
! for exclamatives
… if you want to leave your reader hanging
: for emphasis. The worst thing about my school: break time.
Reading (1 hour)
You will be given one unseen fiction extract.
Remember read the extract section at a time. You do not need to read the whole extract until questions 3 and 4.
Q1 – List four things. (5 mins, 4 marks)
Q2 – Language analysis. (15 mins, 8 marks)
Read the question – what is it asking you?
Read the extract with blinkers on.
Annotate the extract with accurate subject terms – what do the key words suggest?
Write up your response using PEE.
P –every single point needs to use the words of the question
Ev –
Ex – The adjective/adverb/verb/hyperbole/rhetorical question/use of a list/simile etc suggests…
Q3 – Structure (10 mins, 8 marks)
Read the whole extract. Use these sentence starters:
At the beginning of the extract…
Towards the middle of the extract…
Throughout the extract…
At the end of the extract…
Q4 – Critical analysis (30 mins, 20 marks)
Read the question – what is it asking you?
Highlight key words from the statement.
Read the whole extract with blinkers on.
Intro (1-2 sentences)Choose ONE of the following openers
I agree with this statement, because_____
I partly agree with this statement. Sometimes ______, however at times______
I disagree with this statement because ______
Write up your PEEs using the words of the statement
Above all:
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