Cie igcse english literature (0486)

Which prose and poetry are you doing?

Poetry: do the question where a single poem is printed and you answer a question based on (I'd recommend)

Discuss the themes of the poem, stylistic structures, sound devices, literary device, etc...

Write four-five paragraphs, each with a topic sentence: eg, "The writer uses the structure of the extended metaphor in 'To Marguerite' to discuss the human condition" etc

I'd say base each paragraph on a theme/idea, but that's up to you

Make sure you have a shortish, snappy, concise introduction that sets the tone for your answer, and a compelling conclusion.

Prose: two choices - generalised essay question based on a theme or a character, or an in depth analysis of an extract printed for you.
In my personal experience, go for the generalised essay question, but you do have to know some quotes!

Pretty much the same structure as poetry, just explore things like motivations, themes, characters, interactions, events in the novel instead...

Hope that helped!

(Spend 45 mins on each)

Hey

I'm doing a different poetry set, but our teacher said there would be two questions to pick from: one where they give you a poem with a question and you write an essay, and one where they give you two poems and ask you to compare something in them, but they don't really mean compare? It's confusing, so I'm planning on going with the straightforward one-poem-one-answer thing...

Thanks for this!!!

I'm doing Poems Deep and Dangerous, and Jekyll and Hyde.

You are a life saver!

Thanks for this!!!

I'm doing Poems Deep and Dangerous, and Jekyll and Hyde.

You are a life saver!

There are two options- pretty sure the comparing option is the old specification. All the 2015 papers have two single poem options.

i did marriage of true minds and the spies extract question.

for poetry, the two that i didn´t like came up
spies was kinda okay i guess....it was kind off difficult to pick up points, i did sexual awakening, the privet thing and social class idea (this portrays his feelings)

how did everyone else find it?
what will the grade boundaries be like for an B ,A, A*?

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I did Football After School and I'm the King of the castle, but there was so much to write, I needed more time, How many pages did people write in total? I wrote about 6

did anyone else do Hardy and I'm the King of the Castle?

did anyone else do Hardy and I'm the King of the Castle?

I was really pleased about the poems that came up!
At first I look at clod and the pebble and was happy and saw that it was with Song which I hate, but when I turned the page I was super excited that Tiger in the Menagerie came up! It's my absolute favourite out of all 14 poems and the question was very nice.

Both of the Jekyll and Hyde questions were meh. I did the essay one because I generally prefer those but neither question was great or terrible.