GCSE English LiteraturePower and Conflict Poetry

Summative Assessment

Review of the Assessment

The best answers had several common features: No (or very few) spelling, punctuation and grammar errors Effect:

Accuracy Paragraphs were accurately used Effect: Accuracy Handwriting was neat Effect: Pride and effort

signified Literary terminology was correctly used Effect: Clarity

and precision Key words from each of the questions were used Effect: Focused

writing Short quotations were embedded Effect:

Supported points A clear point of view was established Effect: Clarity Responses were focused Effect: Content

to reward Responses were developed (roughly two pages) Effect: Enough

content to reward

Some of the best points on Bayonet Charge are listed below: There are clear examples of alliteration that help to vividly illustrate the chaos and

violence of the battlefield The solider is clearly disorientated and seems confused Hughes employs a range of evocative images Hughes conveys the heavy physicality of combat in the first stanza through the use of

bodily images There is a clear sense that the soldier is experiencing mental trauma and distress The soldier is motivated by a primal desire to stay alive and not by a yearning to gain

recognition for being patriotic

The clearest links were made with three poems in particular: Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred Tennyson Link:

Catastrophic effects of war Remains, by Simon Armitage Link: Confusion of

battlefield Exposure, by Wilfred Owen Link: Mental anguish

of war

Link: Reality of frontline conflict

An example of a carefully crafted point: