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Panesar 19/02/15
Odd-numbered A02
Amrita
Grapple with rather strange micro stories that are being told with Auden
Students who build in ambiguity of stories with Auden often do better
Helpful to pin down story in opening paragraph- enables to write with purpose and
discuss method in relation to the story
Best answers write confidently about method in relation to the overarching story of the
prescribed section
Story has to be in central position in the answer
In lexical analysis, comments need to be tailored to story rather than potential
meanings
Focus on bigger features voice and structure rather than effects of individual words
Concern of examiners obsessed with unreliable narrators - unable to write about
anything else
Discuss methods in relation to overarching story
Different way of approaching poetry .vs. prose
Focus exclusively on narrative methods, not write about the content, themes and
characters
In short time frame, more productive to write about structure and voices than single
words, similes, etc.
The points chosen to write about must be well developed to reveal understanding,
then supported by close textual reference very little credit for feature spotting
Keep in mind it is how writers create, not what they create
Judge writing about which methods will lead to the most interesting discussion about
the ways the writer has crafted his or her story
Problems with writing about rhyme and rhythm often takes students in direction of
poetry analysis or literary criticism rather than narrative method + often not identified
correctlymost students struggle with linking rhythm/rhyme scheme to the story
(most make things up). Think about sense of what you are claiming! (Unconvincing
claim of ABCB rhyme scheme giving a sense of the mariners heart beat!)
Students who select method points as 1st priority then write about them often get into
a muddle
More likely to write meaningfully about how stories begin and end, where in the
structure key events happen, where the events of the stories are located in time and
place and the voices that tell the stories
Do not have a list of methods pre-selected
Even-numbered A01, A03, A04
Really engage with how far, to what extent, and significance
Challenge premises of question maybe even look for question which is easier to do
this?
Range widely across text
Auden address the word narrative, dont just focus on themes and individual stanzas
too much
Best answers have clear independent answers not just trying to remember what has
been said in class or by some critic
Stay focused on question given, not some preferred question trying to relate to exam
question
Choose poems related to the question
How far do you think that Audens poems are dominated by death? death
often connected to war and societys ills in inventive ways. However, some students
How far do you agree with the view that Fra Lippo Lippi is simply a saucy and
loud-mouthed monk best answers focused on sauciness of the monk and his
Write about the significance of the ways the three writers you have studied
create and use suspense in their narratives.
Suspense build up to an event within the narrative (do not confuse with tension,
mystery, foreshadowing curiosity, speculation, narrative gaps)
Students wrote well about altercation in Plaza Hotel between Tom and Gatsby, O What
is that Sound
Amrita
Identify climactic moments, see how they are built up and then comment on their
significance
Climaxes are prepared for built up
Good answers commented on strangling of Porphyria in Porphyrias Lover
Best answers from students who saw how writers structures their texts in prep for the
climax
For some, significance not commented on
Write about the significance of the ways speech is used in the work of the three
writers you have studied.
Best students knew what speech actually is and how it releases the story
Several confuses speech with voice, some did not know the function of speech in
stories
Speech needs to be an addressee or audience, even if it is the character themselves
Sometimes, speech was selected randomly (e.g. old sport in TGG)
Students that wrote well located where speech comes in the story and how it operates
in terms of narrative, choice of speech vital in helping to write effectively i.e. need to
select relevant, well-chosen examples
Not a good idea to start answer by approaching question from negative perspective
and then selecting poems or parts of novels where there is no speech
I.e. write about why speech is important, not why it is not important!
Significance invitation to write about meanings
Write about the significance of places in the work of the three writers you have
studied
Places not to be confused with settings
TKR significance of Afghanistan !Be careful! Kabul is not in Pakistan!
Miss Gees small bed-sitting room, Porphyrias lovers cottage
Weaker answers will tend to simply identify and describe. Mark scheme says Reward
generously candidates who do more than this
Dont ignore help given in question, but also dont only use the examples given as this
limits answer
Demonstrate significance of genres perceptively and relevantly
Best answers from students who saw how writers adapt and subvert genres or who
produce hybrid texts
Students who did not perform well substituted themes for genre (E.g. writing about
redemption and guilt)
How readers might be teased as to what genre the text is
A key choice writers make is how they name or refer to their characters. Write
about the significance of the choices writers have made in naming or referring
to their characters in the three texts you have studied.
The time settings in which writers choose to place their stories are always
significant. For example, writers might choose a particular era, specific years,
seasons, months, times of day, etc. Write about the significance of time
settings as they are used in the narratives of each of the three writers you have
studied.
Symbols and motifs (recurring elements) are used by writers to shape stories
and open up meanings. Write about the significance of symbols and/or motifs
to the narratives of the three writers you have studied.
Confused symbols and motifs with imagery
Select symbols and motifs well, debate their significance in terms of the specific part
of the story in which they appear, then relate them to the wider story (i.e. Zoom in,
zoom out)
TKR symbols of blood and kites; TGG green light symbol; Miss Gee black pedal
brake; Victor - ace of spades; Out out buzz saw
The opening sentence of any story is an important choice that writers make.
Write about the significance of the opening sentence to the stories of the three
writers you have studied.