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jilliams44

Hey, I got all 9s last year so if anyone has any questions please ask away :smile:

Specifically humanities, essays etc as I have more personal help for that!

Reply 1

planets-&-stars

how on earth do i do english lit??? language im getting 9s but i’m scraping passes on lit

Reply 2

jilliams44

Original post by planets-&-stars

how on earth do i do english lit??? language im getting 9s but i’m scraping passes on lit

I did AQA but basically I made flashcards on this app called Anki which gives you the same ones you're bad at so you can learn them faster.
Flashcard Layout:
A01: my inference
A02: 2 methods
A03: contextual knowledge
A04: (for poetry) links to other texts.

I laid out each paragraph:

Anchor to the question

Quote

Method 1

Inference

Higher-tier inference e.g it's as if xxx highlights xxxx /// this conjures an image of xxx

Method 2

Inference

Context

Writers intention

10.

link if applicable

I always do my essay structured by the way the novel / poem / drama goes so exposition, middpoint denouement

hope this helps and feel free to ask more

Reply 3

planets-&-stars

i'm doing aqa too, and that looks really helpful, thank you! what do you mean by method 1/2 and inference?

Reply 4

jilliams44

Original post by planets-&-stars

i'm doing aqa too, and that looks really helpful, thank you! what do you mean by method 1/2 and inference?

Method one is like alliteration, simile etc
Inference is sort of what you have to say about it

For example I’ll use a Romeo and Juliet quote.

In Act 1 Scene, Shakespeare uses hyperbolic language to convey Romeo’s melodrama as an archetypal Petrarchan lover when he exclaims, “O brawling love, O loving hate.” The despondent oxymorons highlight his overwhelming feelings and despair in being away from Rosaline and depict him as melodramatic - perhaps different from a contemporary understanding as in Shakespearean England men were meant to portray a patriarchal dominance - Shakespeare could have used Romeo as a foil from typical men in his time to highlight his atypicality and stronger hold on his emotions, accentuating his love for Juliet later in the play.

Bold - method
Underlined - Context
Italics - inference

Reply 5

planets-&-stars

Original post by jilliams44

Method one is like alliteration, simile etc
Inference is sort of what you have to say about it
For example I’ll use a Romeo and Juliet quote.
In Act 1 Scene, Shakespeare uses hyperbolic language to convey Romeo’s melodrama as an archetypal Petrarchan lover when he exclaims, “O brawling love, O loving hate.” The despondent oxymorons highlight his overwhelming feelings and despair in being away from Rosaline and depict him as melodramatic - perhaps different from a contemporary understanding as in Shakespearean England men were meant to portray a patriarchal dominance - Shakespeare could have used Romeo as a foil from typical men in his time to highlight his atypicality and stronger hold on his emotions, accentuating his love for Juliet later in the play.
Bold - method
Underlined - Context
Italics - inference

thank you so much - you're a life saver!