CIE IGCSE English Literature Wednesday

I just found that there wasn't too much language to actually do in-depth analysis on... what sort of things did you talk about?

I didn't even have any time to check..

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also what are grade boundaries?

Well indeed there wasn't much language but I talked about the theme and symbols for a bit like the gravestone symbolises death which is a theme of the novel and foreshadows Kingshaw's suicide blah blah blah and then relate the theme to how this passage is distressing and disturbing blah blah

Also I said that "Things will come back to you" thing and that is karma (ok I stupidly said reincarnation instead of karma LOL i just realised FML nooooooo) and then kingshaw could never be relaxed even if Hooper is not nearby and then some psychological effect blah blah

then the irregularity created by his "O god, I didn't mean to" sort of speech creates *whatever effect I wrote; I don't remember* because until that point, the passage was all descriptive without anyone's speech


I hate the ITKOTC story but I really like this story when writing essays. It's really easy to talk about themes and mood also character's psyschological state

i did silas, hardy, and tempest and all my essays were the same title

my silas one had no analysis and none had proper conclusions

I love the tempest! but my school never did the book what was the tempest questions like?

1. Stories of ourselves - A bunch of short stories from there
2. Songs of ourselves- A bunch of poems from there
3. Importance of being Earnest
4. Dr. jekyll and Mr Hyde


what about you?

That was the hardest exam I've had in a long time apart from the poetry, the tempest and silas marner essay questions were awful


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I did the empathic question for the Tempest - it was quite straight forward as I made sure it was well structured, stuck closely to the play whilst referring to other parts of the play and it had a good tone. Quite a comfortable route towards a good grade considering the generally low grade boundaries in CIE English. Did anybody else do the writing in role question?

I didn't do great on that question, I panicked and rather stupidly missed out the connection between the graveyard and the theme of death. I did talk about foreshadowing, but in the context of Charles pitifully subjecting himself to the judgement of God ie pretty obvious he's going to kill himself. I also talked about Charles' loneliness etc and the fact that his personality changes so much from being quite kind and feeling bad about thinking nasty things to wanting Hopper to be dead.

anyone do the all my sons essay?