UNSEENPOETRY & PROSE

Poetry Prose

Poems of any structure and form

Any length but likely to be shorter

Fiction – either short story or novel

Focus on a character, an event or a setting

Simile Enjambment Caesura Stanza

Personification Assonance Rhyme scheme Pathetic Fallacy

Sibilance Alliteration Extended Metaphor

Juxtaposition

Oxymoron Foreshadowing Emotive language Adjectives

Repetition Dissonance Semantic Field Sentence/Clause length

AOs

•AO1 show knowledge of the content

•AO2 understand the meanings of texts and their context

•AO3 recognise how writers use language, structure, and form to create and shape meanings and effects

•AO4 personal response

Examiner Report June 2015:

The bullet points are advisory not mandatory. Very strong answers often showed good integration of bullet point material within an individual overall argument. Others used the bullets as a paragraph plan: they do help candidates to observe the effects of some features of the writing, understanding the structure of the passage and begin to evaluate both the ways in which the text ends and the possible implications of that ending for understanding of the whole.

It is a good idea to organise a response around a set of linked observations and arguments. This kind of checklist is much more useful than a checklist of technical terms. The best-planned responses tended to follow the structure and development of the passage, as do the bullet points, rather than having (for example) separate paragraphs for language, form and structure. Essay plans based on acronyms often led to mechanical responses.

Thus attention to detail was sometimes at the expense of the meaning of the whole text. This was especially evident among candidates who used checklists or acronyms to structure their answers, instead of reading through the whole text first, and considering the question carefully.

Q:How does the poet make his thoughts and feelings so vivid for you?

• Son’s experiences at Rockpool

• Explanation of experience of writing

• How he connects two experiences

TVT: Topic, Viewpoint, Tone Introduction (2-3 sentences)

The poem is a touching moment between a father and a son. It is told from the viewpoint of the father and has a gentle calm tone.

TVT

The poem is a touching moment between a father and a son. It is told from the viewpoint of the father and has a gentle calm tone.

Examiner Report: June2015

Some candidates might have achieved higher marks with more attention to quotation technique. Quotations need not be lengthy: indeed single-word quotations can be highly effective if they are clearly related to context. It is most effective when quotation is followed by comments on the effect of the choice of words or images.