AQA A2 English Literature LITA3: Love Through the Ages, 6 June 2014

I do the following plan (it has never failed to get me top grades - touch wood - but I think now that I'm doing timed conditions it's tricky to get it all in!)

Thesis: what are the texts ultimately saying?
Introduction (typically introduce with a critical quotation that sometimes challenges the central theme.)
Language 2-3 points of comparison
Perspective - 1 point of comparison
Form - 2-3 points
Structure - 2-3 points
Social/historical context: social circumstances, genre, time, gender of author.
Conclude

What's the best way to structure an opening for question one and question two? I never really know how to structure it and any help would be much appreciated

Has anyone got any quotes for unrequited love? I am really lacking in this area!

How have you divided your wider reading quotes into themes? I'm struggling trying to think which themes I need to cover since really anything could come up. So far I've got themes such as power of love, definition of love/true love, obsessive love, unrequited love, love affairs/betrayals, familial love, marriage, lust/seduction, forbidden love, break ups and separation. I'm not sure if I've got too many themes or if I haven't got enough. I also haven't organised them all into themes yet so I'm left with gaps where I realise I might not have quotes which go with a certain themes in a drama or something.

How has everyone else organised it and have they found quotes covering all themes?

I do the following plan (it has never failed to get me top grades - touch wood - but I think now that I'm doing timed conditions it's tricky to get it all in!)

Thesis: what are the texts ultimately saying?
Introduction (typically introduce with a critical quotation that sometimes challenges the central theme.)
Language 2-3 points of comparison
Perspective - 1 point of comparison
Form - 2-3 points
Structure - 2-3 points
Social/historical context: social circumstances, genre, time, gender of author.
Conclude

Do you incorporate the wider reading stuff within those points? Or would you do wider reading as a separate paragraph? (This is something I've always been unsure about) and do you need quotes from wider reading or not?

Do you incorporate the wider reading stuff within those points? Or would you do wider reading as a separate paragraph? (This is something I've always been unsure about) and do you need quotes from wider reading or not?

Hi, just a few questions if that's ok. What do you mean by "perspective"? As in what do you write there?
And also what do you mean by "include a critical quotation" - is this from wider reading or one in the extracts?

Thank you

The point I struggle most with is structure. Form and language I think I'm okay with, but what sort of points could you make about structure? Has anyone got any examples? Thanks!

I'm not sure if this really answers your question or helps in any way but my teacher said that even just saying 'later in the extract, this feeling of _______ in increased further as the writer develops the idea of ______' so basically, just pin-pointing where things are in the extract/your wider reading, and how this has an effect Or you could pick out punctuation, sentence length, the order of words etc. I find form the hardest! Unless it's a drama, I have no idea how to mention form D: so if could try to explain it to me then that'd be helpful


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Thank you! This helped! I had some of those ideas in my head for structure but I wasn't sure if I was on the right wave-length.

For form, I usually talk about and compare the narrative perspectives - like first person personal pronouns, and how that has an impact on the story being told in the text. With poems, I sometimes talk about the type - like metaphysical, sonnet, etc? But then that would also come under context/structure, I'm not sure. I get muddled too! Has anyone else got any other ideas for form?