AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature B
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Re: AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature Bah okay(Original post by Shedrick94)
Well, I'm hoping to be doing it for section B, so I really need to know about the harder things like narrative gaps and setting. Because I think if character names came up I'd be pretty safe.
Anything you would like to know I've got loads on auden!
Setting's good for Gatsby, but the important thing to remember is that it encompasses time as well as place. The entire novel is set in the 1920s, so of course all the locations featured are lavish and beautiful.
Gatsby's house - gorgeous, enormous, yet also somewhat empty; the reader connects with Gatsby's loneliness. Basically, his house is the pinnacle of life in the Roaring Twenties - it symbolises the American Dream, his reinvention, and his aspirations with regards to Daisy.
The hotel room (ch7) - again engages with the frivolity of the era; they're wealthy enough to hire out numerous rooms.
Valley of Ashes - symbolises the underside to wealth, the physical corruption perhaps?
Narrative gaps:
the entire narrative is non-linear, so it's hard to notice where information is missing. Nick is a subjective narrator, although he claims to be objective - pretty much from the first page, we can tell that he's biased towards Gatsby, and enjoys romanticising him etc. Therefore, all the unrefined, uglier details of his past are suppressed - for example, the opening of chapter 4, and quickly replaced with details that further present Gatsby in a positive light.
I think that's the most important points for those two - is there anything else? This is actually really good revision
Do you have any notes for 1st September, If I Could Tell You, O Where Are You Going etc?
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Re: AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature BProbably the hardest exam I have got coming up and I am so worried. It doesnt help that we have 2 teachers, one being "nice" and giving me A's and high B's, the other giving me low C's...
Has anyone got any good tips to help me? Notes on Gatsby, Tennyson or the Kite Runner will be highly appreciated.
Got to get an A but I think it will be a tough task, I did get Band 6 in the coursework which helps I think.
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Re: AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature Byeah, I'll inbox it to you? Ah, thank you so much!!(Original post by lampshade1)
do you have an email? as I have no clue how to attach them
will email them to you tomorrow!
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Re: AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature BHaha no worries it's lee.r.w.francis@gmail.com(Original post by lampshade1)
do you have an email? as I have no clue how to attach them will email them to you tomorrow!
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Re: AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature BThat's brilliant thanks! What kind of notes do you need? Form structure language, or just some general notes of the poems? I just wanna know so i dont type out loads of stuff that you already have.(Original post by pennyy)
ah okay Setting's good for Gatsby, but the important thing to remember is that it encompasses time as well as place. The entire novel is set in the 1920s, so of course all the locations featured are lavish and beautiful.
Gatsby's house - gorgeous, enormous, yet also somewhat empty; the reader connects with Gatsby's loneliness. Basically, his house is the pinnacle of life in the Roaring Twenties - it symbolises the American Dream, his reinvention, and his aspirations with regards to Daisy.
The hotel room (ch7) - again engages with the frivolity of the era; they're wealthy enough to hire out numerous rooms.
Valley of Ashes - symbolises the underside to wealth, the physical corruption perhaps?
Narrative gaps:
the entire narrative is non-linear, so it's hard to notice where information is missing. Nick is a subjective narrator, although he claims to be objective - pretty much from the first page, we can tell that he's biased towards Gatsby, and enjoys romanticising him etc. Therefore, all the unrefined, uglier details of his past are suppressed - for example, the opening of chapter 4, and quickly replaced with details that further present Gatsby in a positive light.
I think that's the most important points for those two - is there anything else? This is actually really good revision
Do you have any notes for 1st September, If I Could Tell You, O Where Are You Going etc?
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Re: AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature BThat's brilliant. I struggle to write with such fluency when I'm in an exam. So I can't express what I want to without sounding a total goon. I need a while to prepare and arrange my sentences. Seems that you don't have that problem!!!! That's a fantastic essay.(Original post by Braede)
Sorry for the delay
Having to write them up again because they're not on this computer. Sending them to you question by question now - i've just emailed you the first part of my Section A. -
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Re: AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature BAww, thank-you.(Original post by Shedrick94)
That's brilliant. I struggle to write with such fluency when I'm in an exam. So I can't express what I want to without sounding a total goon. I need a while to prepare and arrange my sentences. Seems that you don't have that problem!!!! That's a fantastic essay.
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Re: AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature Bahh, *chapter 6, sorry! (gaps in narrative)(Original post by Shedrick94)
That's brilliant thanks! What kind of notes do you need? Form structure language, or just some general notes of the poems? I just wanna know so i dont type out loads of stuff that you already have.
ermm, yeah basically any notes at all would be welcome! I have no idea what's going on etc
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Re: AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature BHiya, would you be able to send me your essays too please? Copy and pasted into a PM if that's ok?(Original post by Braede)
Aww, thank-you.
Just finished writing the second part, so that is coming your way now as well.
Thank you!! I'm doing it on Gatsby, Enduring Love, Auden and Hardy, fairly scared as English is so hard to revise for
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Re: AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature BIf you send me your email, I'll get them back to you tomorrow, I'm going to Warwick to have a look at the university. I hope to be home about 3 or 4 but I'll drop you an email with it all on.(Original post by pennyy)
ahh, *chapter 6, sorry! (gaps in narrative)
ermm, yeah basically any notes at all would be welcome! I have no idea what's going on etc
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Re: AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature B(Original post by Braede)
Aww, thank-you.
Just finished writing the second part, so that is coming your way now as well.
I really don't understand where you lost marks -
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Re: AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature BCan PM anyone Great Gatsby notes, I took that exam last year.
Would appreciate some help on Pardoner's Tale, Chaucer. But can exchange notes on Bloody Chamber and Wuthering Heights. Got a lot of those. -
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Re: AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature BCould i have your gatsby notes! I need as many as i can(Original post by tsveta)
Can PM anyone Great Gatsby notes, I took that exam last year.
Would appreciate some help on Pardoner's Tale, Chaucer. But can exchange notes on Bloody Chamber and Wuthering Heights. Got a lot of those.
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Re: AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature BJust sent it to you(Original post by MissSBx)
please may I have a read of it as well if that's alright with you? I have sent you my email address via p.m. Thanks soo much!
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Re: AQA- English Literature at AS Level, Literature BHi,
if anyone has any Hardy notes/model answers, particularly A03 for section A)b, I would be eternally grateful. I've never done a practise question/seen a model answer for it so have no idea as to the structure at all...!
Thank you!
will email them to you tomorrow!
