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Advice for success in English Literature GCSE
Hi,
I have my unit 2 english literature exam on tuesday, the exam board is OCR and it is on poetry and prose post 1914.
The book i have studied is opening worlds short stories and the poems are war poems. (Although this doesn't really matter to you)
In my coursework i achieved an A* and in my unit 1 exam i was one mark off an A*. If i could achieve an A* overall in this subject it would make my year! Therefore i want to do as much preparation as possible. I know that there is no guarantee of an A* but the english department at my school are not the best help as it it their first year at OCR and they are as nervous about what to expect as we are!
Do you have any advice on a suitable essay structure, I have been taught
PEEZE : Point, Evidence, Explanation, Zoom, Explain
This helps but i think i need to be talking about context and linking things together but could you please clear things up on what could bump my grade up.
Thank you!
I have my unit 2 english literature exam on tuesday, the exam board is OCR and it is on poetry and prose post 1914.
The book i have studied is opening worlds short stories and the poems are war poems. (Although this doesn't really matter to you)
In my coursework i achieved an A* and in my unit 1 exam i was one mark off an A*. If i could achieve an A* overall in this subject it would make my year! Therefore i want to do as much preparation as possible. I know that there is no guarantee of an A* but the english department at my school are not the best help as it it their first year at OCR and they are as nervous about what to expect as we are!
Do you have any advice on a suitable essay structure, I have been taught
PEEZE : Point, Evidence, Explanation, Zoom, Explain
This helps but i think i need to be talking about context and linking things together but could you please clear things up on what could bump my grade up.
Thank you!
Choccodrop
Hi,
I have my unit 2 english literature exam on tuesday, the exam board is OCR and it is on poetry and prose post 1914.
The book i have studied is opening worlds short stories and the poems are war poems. (Although this doesn't really matter to you)
In my coursework i achieved an A* and in my unit 1 exam i was one mark off an A*. If i could achieve an A* overall in this subject it would make my year! Therefore i want to do as much preparation as possible. I know that there is no guarantee of an A* but the english department at my school are not the best help as it it their first year at OCR and they are as nervous about what to expect as we are!
Do you have any advice on a suitable essay structure, I have been taught
PEEZE : Point, Evidence, Explanation, Zoom, Explain
This helps but i think i need to be talking about context and linking things together but could you please clear things up on what could bump my grade up.
Thank you!
I have my unit 2 english literature exam on tuesday, the exam board is OCR and it is on poetry and prose post 1914.
The book i have studied is opening worlds short stories and the poems are war poems. (Although this doesn't really matter to you)
In my coursework i achieved an A* and in my unit 1 exam i was one mark off an A*. If i could achieve an A* overall in this subject it would make my year! Therefore i want to do as much preparation as possible. I know that there is no guarantee of an A* but the english department at my school are not the best help as it it their first year at OCR and they are as nervous about what to expect as we are!
Do you have any advice on a suitable essay structure, I have been taught
PEEZE : Point, Evidence, Explanation, Zoom, Explain
This helps but i think i need to be talking about context and linking things together but could you please clear things up on what could bump my grade up.
Thank you!
Not really sure what Zoom is meant to be, but for Eng Lit analysis, this is what we are taught:
PEEL: Point, Evidence, Explanation (Purpose and Context), Link
Without a link sentence, you'll lose the marks for not focusing on the question.
Reply 2
Groat
Not really sure what Zoom is meant to be, but for Eng Lit analysis, this is what we are taught:
PEEL: Point, Evidence, Explanation (Purpose and Context), Link
Without a link sentence, you'll lose the marks for not focusing on the question.
PEEL: Point, Evidence, Explanation (Purpose and Context), Link
Without a link sentence, you'll lose the marks for not focusing on the question.
Hey could you just explain the link part for me please? My school has always taught us just PEE
Reply 3
Choccodrop
Hi,
I have my unit 2 english literature exam on tuesday, the exam board is OCR and it is on poetry and prose post 1914.
The book i have studied is opening worlds short stories and the poems are war poems. (Although this doesn't really matter to you)
In my coursework i achieved an A* and in my unit 1 exam i was one mark off an A*. If i could achieve an A* overall in this subject it would make my year! Therefore i want to do as much preparation as possible. I know that there is no guarantee of an A* but the english department at my school are not the best help as it it their first year at OCR and they are as nervous about what to expect as we are!
Do you have any advice on a suitable essay structure, I have been taught
PEEZE : Point, Evidence, Explanation, Zoom, Explain
This helps but i think i need to be talking about context and linking things together but could you please clear things up on what could bump my grade up.
Thank you!
I have my unit 2 english literature exam on tuesday, the exam board is OCR and it is on poetry and prose post 1914.
The book i have studied is opening worlds short stories and the poems are war poems. (Although this doesn't really matter to you)
In my coursework i achieved an A* and in my unit 1 exam i was one mark off an A*. If i could achieve an A* overall in this subject it would make my year! Therefore i want to do as much preparation as possible. I know that there is no guarantee of an A* but the english department at my school are not the best help as it it their first year at OCR and they are as nervous about what to expect as we are!
Do you have any advice on a suitable essay structure, I have been taught
PEEZE : Point, Evidence, Explanation, Zoom, Explain
This helps but i think i need to be talking about context and linking things together but could you please clear things up on what could bump my grade up.
Thank you!
PEE or PEEZE is a good structure but when you explain it, try and give different interpretations and be original. hundreds of 16 year-olds will buy revision guides and write the same thing and the examiner will get bored. you have to be original and think for yourself, especially in poems.
all use word anylsis which my teacher tought me how to do. basically quote a word and just a word and give a lot of detail about that word only. writing a lot about a little is better than writing out long quotes
hope that helps, i also have GCSE English Lit next tuesday
also what is zoom?
Reply 4
I did those books last year. Make sure you know the themes for each story so that you can know which ones (and which parts within the story) for the question. Learn technical language and it's effect eg the pathetic fallacy in the beginning of the gold legged frog creates a sorrowful mood; the 1st person narration in Two Kinds let's us relate with the protagonist; the symbolism of the statue in The Red Ball etc...
matt_price93
Hey could you just explain the link part for me please? My school has always taught us just PEE
Take the question "Compare the presentation of death in Wilfred Owen’s Spring Offensive and Vera Brittain’s Perhaps."
If you've done your PEE, talking about imagery used in both poems with evidence and their effect, your link sentence would be something along the lines of:
"Therefore, Owen and Brittain present death very differently using imagery, with Owen focusing on the dreadfulness at battle, whereas Brittain concentrates on giving hope for those who have lost someone at war."
As this is a question requiring you to compare, you must address both poems in your link sentence.
Reply 6
what do you mean by 'zoom'? our school just teaches us PEE
Reply 7
thanks for all of your help so far. "Zoom" is the close language analysis,, so the evidence would say be a line or a phrase which you then explain and zoom in on one word in particular and explain that further, for example
"drab street stares" you would explain that it creates an eerie and pessimistic mood and then "zoom" in on the word "stares" and explain all about how it is used as personification and any other alternative interpretations of the word you can think of, basically why the writer has chosen it
"drab street stares" you would explain that it creates an eerie and pessimistic mood and then "zoom" in on the word "stares" and explain all about how it is used as personification and any other alternative interpretations of the word you can think of, basically why the writer has chosen it
Reply 8
Hi! My English teacher has taught us this reealy useful technique for the poetry part of the exam. I'll try and explain it as best I can...
1) Choose your four poems. (The poem mentioned in the question should be one of your strongest)
2) List the poems and label them (A, B, C, D) in order of strongest to weakest.
3) During the question, link your strongest with your weakest (AD) and your middle poems together (BC).
4) Start of your essay with a point involving your strongest poem (A) with a reference to your weakest poem (D). Be sharp, confident and accurate to get the marks.
5) Continue your essay, taking turns with AD and BC paragraphs.
6) Remember your conclusion - it hints a well timed, carefully crafted essay rather than a rushed-to-be-finished essay.
REMEMBER; you don’t need to link all four poems with every point. As long as you mention all four poems (even if your weakest is in just one line) you'll be in the C-A* boundary. Without all four poems, you won't be able to get over a C no matter how good your answer is.
Hope this helps
1) Choose your four poems. (The poem mentioned in the question should be one of your strongest)
2) List the poems and label them (A, B, C, D) in order of strongest to weakest.
3) During the question, link your strongest with your weakest (AD) and your middle poems together (BC).
4) Start of your essay with a point involving your strongest poem (A) with a reference to your weakest poem (D). Be sharp, confident and accurate to get the marks.
5) Continue your essay, taking turns with AD and BC paragraphs.
6) Remember your conclusion - it hints a well timed, carefully crafted essay rather than a rushed-to-be-finished essay.
REMEMBER; you don’t need to link all four poems with every point. As long as you mention all four poems (even if your weakest is in just one line) you'll be in the C-A* boundary. Without all four poems, you won't be able to get over a C no matter how good your answer is.
Hope this helps
For the poems we're taught FLIRT.
Form
Language
Imagery
Rhyme
Tone/theme
Mentioning those helps to give you more idea, ie - with one of my poems, it is an elegy (that's its form), so you'd get a mark for evaluating that. You obviously can't utilise all of FLIRT for all 4 poems, but if make sure you've used it, you should be fine.
Form
Language
Imagery
Rhyme
Tone/theme
Mentioning those helps to give you more idea, ie - with one of my poems, it is an elegy (that's its form), so you'd get a mark for evaluating that. You obviously can't utilise all of FLIRT for all 4 poems, but if make sure you've used it, you should be fine.
sofiasofia
Hi! My English teacher has taught us this reealy useful technique for the poetry part of the exam. I'll try and explain it as best I can...
1) Choose your four poems. (The poem mentioned in the question should be one of your strongest)
2) List the poems and label them (A, B, C, D) in order of strongest to weakest.
3) During the question, link your strongest with your weakest (AD) and your middle poems together (BC).
4) Start of your essay with a point involving your strongest poem (A) with a reference to your weakest poem (D). Be sharp, confident and accurate to get the marks.
5) Continue your essay, taking turns with AD and BC paragraphs.
6) Remember your conclusion - it hints a well timed, carefully crafted essay rather than a rushed-to-be-finished essay.
REMEMBER; you don’t need to link all four poems with every point. As long as you mention all four poems (even if your weakest is in just one line) you'll be in the C-A* boundary. Without all four poems, you won't be able to get over a C no matter how good your answer is.
Hope this helps
1) Choose your four poems. (The poem mentioned in the question should be one of your strongest)
2) List the poems and label them (A, B, C, D) in order of strongest to weakest.
3) During the question, link your strongest with your weakest (AD) and your middle poems together (BC).
4) Start of your essay with a point involving your strongest poem (A) with a reference to your weakest poem (D). Be sharp, confident and accurate to get the marks.
5) Continue your essay, taking turns with AD and BC paragraphs.
6) Remember your conclusion - it hints a well timed, carefully crafted essay rather than a rushed-to-be-finished essay.
REMEMBER; you don’t need to link all four poems with every point. As long as you mention all four poems (even if your weakest is in just one line) you'll be in the C-A* boundary. Without all four poems, you won't be able to get over a C no matter how good your answer is.
Hope this helps
I feel that point number 5 would make the essay seem convoluted. The transition between the comparison of two sets of poems is unthinkable in my eyes.
What I would do is compare 2 poems first, then compare the other 2 poems.
Then in the conclusion, make a striking point that draws all the 4 poems together.
Reply 11
tehforum
I feel that point number 5 would make the essay seem convoluted. The transition between the comparison of two sets of poems is unthinkable in my eyes.
What I would do is compare 2 poems first, then compare the other 2 poems.
Then in the conclusion, make a striking point that draws all the 4 poems together.
What I would do is compare 2 poems first, then compare the other 2 poems.
Then in the conclusion, make a striking point that draws all the 4 poems together.
Sounds good! I used this technique in the exam and being honest, i only had time to do each two poems once, as you suggested
Well, everyone can addapt and improve it till we all take over the world with our amazing english skills
sofiasofia
Sounds good! I used this technique in the exam and being honest, i only had time to do each two poems once, as you suggested
Well, everyone can addapt and improve it till we all take over the world with our amazing english skills
Well, everyone can addapt and improve it till we all take over the world with our amazing english skills
Hasn't it been like a month and a half since this exam?
I feel that the harder English GCSE (Lit), was easier than English Language.
I must say Eng Lang Paper 2 was not the greatest of papers, Paper 1 was very easy.
Reply 13
PEEZAL: Point Evidence Explain Zoom Analyse Link
Zoom: Pick a word or phrase from the quote and explain it
Link link the quote to the question
E.g (of a link): This presents racism through metaphors and verbs that are used as adjectives
Zoom: Pick a word or phrase from the quote and explain it
Link link the quote to the question
E.g (of a link): This presents racism through metaphors and verbs that are used as adjectives
Original post by Groat
Take the question "Compare the presentation of death in Wilfred Owen’s Spring Offensive and Vera Brittain’s Perhaps."
If you've done your PEE, talking about imagery used in both poems with evidence and their effect, your link sentence would be something along the lines of:
"Therefore, Owen and Brittain present death very differently using imagery, with Owen focusing on the dreadfulness at battle, whereas Brittain concentrates on giving hope for those who have lost someone at war."
As this is a question requiring you to compare, you must address both poems in your link sentence.
If you've done your PEE, talking about imagery used in both poems with evidence and their effect, your link sentence would be something along the lines of:
"Therefore, Owen and Brittain present death very differently using imagery, with Owen focusing on the dreadfulness at battle, whereas Brittain concentrates on giving hope for those who have lost someone at war."
As this is a question requiring you to compare, you must address both poems in your link sentence.
Does the link sentence have to be after every point and explanation you have written or does it have to be in the conclusion?
Reply 15
PEEZEPZEPZ .
point, evidence, explanation, zoom, explanation, purpose, zoom, explanation, purpose, zink.
( one of the zooms should focus upon a method and the other a part of speak)
(Purpose means why the writer has done it what effect does it have on the reader)
point, evidence, explanation, zoom, explanation, purpose, zoom, explanation, purpose, zink.
( one of the zooms should focus upon a method and the other a part of speak)
(Purpose means why the writer has done it what effect does it have on the reader)
Reply 16
(All examples) Zoom is when you say for example: the adjective “agony” suggests, implies or connotes to... Point: The man is lonely Evidence: “(pick a line or whatever regarding this from the passage)” Explanation: This suggests...Zoom: The adjective “lonely” suggests, connotes or implies... Analysis: furthermore...Link: link back to the question so the marker knows you are focusing on the question and so you don’t lose marks !!
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