Weeks 4 and 5 - Rehearsal Exams

Year 11

English Literature

Homework Booklet

Name:………………………………………. Teacher:……………………………

Instructions

Each week you will be assigned a bank of quotes and key words to learn for the different aspects of your GCSE English Literature course.

This will be tested in class in the same lesson each week to help you to build up a useful bank of key quotes and terminology which you can use in the literature exams.

Week 1 – 30th October

Quotes Romeo and Juliet, Character focus(Romeo and Juliet)
“My only love sprung from my only hate” (Juliet, Act 1 Scene 4)
The power of love in the face of conflict.
“Give me my Romeo, and, when I shall die, “
(Juliet, Act 3, Scene 2)
Foreshadowing – mentions of heaven. The two are reunited by death.
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any otherword would smell as sweet."(Juliet, Act 2. Scene 2)
Being bound by her name and the problem with the family feud.
“I do protest I never injured thee, but loved thee better than thou canst devise”.
(Romeo, Act 3, Scene1)
Trying to overcome the conflict through the power of love.
“O! I am Fortune’s fool!” (Romeo, Act 3. Scene 1)
Romeo as a victim of fate.
“Then I defy you, stars! “
(Romeo, Act 5, 1)
Romeo accepting and trying to defying fate.
Key vocabulary / Features
Fate / Foreshadowing
Conflict / Emotive language
Extreme vocabulary choices. / Hyperbole (exaggeration)
Connotations. / Religious allusions or connotations

Week 2 – 6th November

Quotes - Jekyll and Hyde, Character focus (Jekyll and Hyde)
“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”
Dr Jekyll, in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”
Dr Jekyll, in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
“The large handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes.”
On Dr Jekyll, in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Key terms / Features
Duality / Alliteration
Religion / Metaphor
Description / Religious allusions

Week 3 – 13th November

Quotes – Jekyll and Hyde, Theme focus (duality and setting)
‘If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers,”
‘Jekyll and Hyde’- chapter 6
‘I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of the elements.’
‘Jekyll and Hyde’ – chapter 10
‘But I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence.’
‘Jekyll and Hyde’ – chapter 10
Key terms / Features
humanity / allusion
animalism / animalisation
immorality / dehumanisation

Weeks 4 and 5 - Rehearsal Exams

Week 6 – 4th December

Quotes - Poetry
‘the merciless iced east winds that knife us ...’
‘Exposure’- by Wilfred Owen
“I see every round as it rips through his life”
‘Remains’- by Simon Armitage
“all the world wonder’d”
‘Charge of The Light Brigade’- by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Key terms / Features
futility / personification
courage / imagery
pointless / rhyme

Week 7 – 11th December

Quotes - Poetry
‘Dem tell me/ Whademwhant to tell me’
‘I carving out me identity’
‘Checking Out Me History’- by John Agard
Key terms / Features
Dialect / Syntax/ non-standard phonetic spelling
Identity / Irregular rhyme scheme/ structure
Oppression / Allusion
Quotes - Poetry
‘Her father embarked at sunrise’
‘Strung out like bunting/ On a green-blue translucent sea’
‘Kamikaze’ – by Beatrice Garland
Key terms / Features
Polysemic / Sibilance
Samurai / Simile
Cultural conditioning / Enjambment
Quotes - Poetry
‘There once was a country’
‘I have no passport’
‘Emigree’ - by Carol Rumens
Key terms / Features
Emigrate / Extended metaphor
Identity / First person narrative
Defiant / Personification

Week 8 – 18th December

Quotes - Poetry
“We are prepared: We build out houses squat”
Storm on the Island, Seamus Heaney
“But there are no trees, no natural shelter”
Storm on the Island, Seamus Heaney
Key terms / Features
Wizened / Enjambment
Stooks / Caesura
Strafe / Metaphor
Salvo / Blank verse
Quotes - Poetry
“Suddenly he awoke and was running”
Bayonet Charge, Ted Hughes
“Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest”
Bayonet Charge, Ted Hughes
Key terms / Features
Statuary / Similes
Threshing circle / Enjambment
Touchy dynamite / Figurative language

Week 9 – 8th January

Quotes
“crimped petals, spasms of paper red”
Poppies, Jane Weir
“All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt, slowly melting”
Poppies, Jane Weir
Key terms / Features
Armistice / First person narrative
Bias binding / Enjambment
blockade / Repetition

Week 10 and week 11 - Rehearsal exams

Week 12 – 29th January

Quotes
‘The back of the Koran, where a hand has written in the names and histories’
‘Tissue’ – by ImtiazDharker
‘That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive.’
‘My Last Duchess’ – by Robert Browning
‘In his dark room he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows’
‘War Photographer’ – by Carol Ann Duffy
Key terms / Features
monoliths / simile
countenance / personification
suffering / metaphor
Quotes
‘If buildings were paper … see how easily they fall away on a sigh’
‘Tissue’ – by ImtiazDharker
‘She had a heart – how shall I say? – too soon made glad’
‘My Last Duchess’ – by Robert Browning
‘A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost’
‘War Photographer’ – by Carol Ann Duffy
Key terms / Features
borderlines / sibilance
avowed / enjambment
dispel / juxtaposition

Week 13 – 5th February

Quotes - Jekyll and Hyde, Dr Hastie Lanyon
“scientific balderdash”
Dr Hastie Lanyon disagrees with Jekyll’s ideas and calls them “scientific balderdash”
“wrong, wrong in mind”
Lanyon hasn’t seen Jekyll since he became too “fanciful” and “wrong, wrong in mind”
Lanyon is the only person to see Hyde turning into Jekyll. He cannot cope with the trauma of seeing the transformation. Soon afterward, he falls ill and dies.
Key terms / Features
conventional science / repetition
respectable
contrast – character, views and science
Quotes - Jekyll and Hyde, Gabriel Utterson
‘lover of the sane’
“the lawyers way” “dry lawyer”
“good influence”(on the criminals he deals with)
“Inclined to help rather than to reprove”
Key terms / ideas
Narrator – is he reliable? / The idea of the Victorian Gentleman
respectable / calm
detective / rational

Week 14 – 19th February

Quotes - An Inspector Calls, Character Focus (Mr and Mrs Birling)
‘A man has to make his own way.’
‘There’ll be a public scandal-unless we are lucky.’ Mr Birling
‘An Inspector Calls’
‘I’m the only one of you who didn’t give in to him.’
‘As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money.’ Mrs Birling
‘An Inspector Calls’
Key terms / Features
Social responsibility / reputation
Wealth, power and poverty / Social status
Conflict and social class / Authoritative language

Week 15 – 26th February

Quotes – Romeo and Juliet, Theme focus (Love, Conflict and Fate)
‘Violent delights have violent ends.’ Friar Lawrence
‘Romeo and Juliet’ Act 2 Scene 6 Line 9
‘A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.’
Prologue Line 6
‘My bounty is as is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep: the more I give to thee
The more I have for both are infinite.’ Romeo
Act 2 Scene 2 Lines 133-136
Key terms / Features
Fate and free will / oxymoron
Passionate love / metaphor
Conflict / Figurative language

Week 16 – 5th March

Quotes – Romeo and Juliet, Character focus (Mercutio and Tybalt)
“I am hurt.
A plague o' both your houses! I am sped”
Mercutio in Act 3 Scene 1
“Twill serve. Ask for
me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man”
Mercutio in Act 3 Scene 1
“Now, by the stock and honor of my kin,
To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.”
Tybalt in Act 1 Scene 5
Key terms / Features
Vengeance / Pun
Provoked / Figurative language
Honour

Week 17 and week 18 - Rehearsal exams

Week 19 – 26th March

Quotes –An Inspector Calls, Gerald
"Thanks. You're going to be a great help, I can see. You've said your piece, and you're obviously going to hate this, so why on earth don't you leave us to it?"
‘An Inspector Calls ’- by J.B. Priestley
"Getting a bit heavy-handed, aren't you, Inspector?"
‘An Inspector Calls’ - by J.B. Priestley
Key terms / Features
Lower- class
Power
Divide between genders
Quotes – An Inspector Calls,Shelia
"last summer, when you never came near me."
‘An Inspector Calls ’- by J.B. Priestley
"But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people."
‘An Inspector Calls’ - by J.B. Priestley
"he's giving us the rope - so that we'll hang ourselves"
‘An Inspector Calls’- by J.B. Priestley
Key terms / Features
Compassion
Perceptive
Curious
Quotes – An Inspector Calls, Eric
‘your own grandchild – you killed them both – damn you, damn you’
‘An Inspector Calls ’- by J.B. Priestley
'I’m not very clear about it, but afterwards she told me she didn’t want to go in but that – well I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty – and I threatened to make a row'
‘An Inspector Calls’ - by J.B. Priestley
Key terms / Features
Social responsibility / Punctuation
tension / Repetition
Guilt
Quotes An Inspector Calls, theme focus(Responsibility)
‘But each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it.’ The Inspector
‘We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.’ The inspector
'Man has to mind his own business and look after himself.'Mr Birling
Key terms / Features
Responsibility / Pronoun
Ignorance / Metaphor
Disapproval / Imperative sentence

Week 20 – 16th April

Quotes An Inspector Calls- Inspector Goole
‘One person and one line of enquiry at a time. Otherwise, there’s a muddle.’
‘One Eva Smith is gone – but there are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chances of happiness.’
‘The Inspector need not be a big man but he creates at once the impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness.’
Key terms / Features
Dominate/ power / Semantic field of size
Orderly / Extended metaphor
Responsibility

Week 21 – 23rd April

Quotes –Poetry, “Ozymandias”
“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair.”
“Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Key vocabulary / Features
Visage / Petrarchan Sonnet
Colossal / Enjambment
Boundless / Narrative
Quotes –Poetry, “London”
“I wander through each chartered street
Near where the chartered Thames does flow.”
“The mind forged manacles I hear.”
Key vocabulary / Features
Manacles / Repetition
Chartered / Oxymoron
Woe / Regular rhyme scheme
Quotes –Poetry, Extract from, “The Prelude”
“a huge peak, black and huge…
Upreared its ugly head.”
“there hung a darkness, call it solitude,
Or blank desertion.”
Key vocabulary / Features
Elfin pinnace / Personification
Boundary / Simile
Covert / Sibilance

Week 22 – 30th April

Quotes - Poetry
“All their eyes are ice, but nothing happens”
‘Exposure’- by Wilfred Owen
“probably armed, probably not”
‘Remains’ – Simon Armitage
‘Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell’
‘Charge of The Light Brigade’- by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Key terms / Features
futility / personification
courage / repetition
pointless / ellipsis