Specimen Papers and Mark Schemes

123 Pages·2007·0.94 MB·English

Specimen Papers and Mark Schemes for
English Literature
For fi rst AS Examination in 2009
For fi rst A2 Examination in 2010
Subject Code: 5110
Contents

Specimen Papers 1
Assessment Unit AS 2 3
Assessment Unit A2 1 9
Resource Booklet 15
Assessment Unit A2 2 25

Mark Schemes 29
Assessment Unit AS 2 31
Assessment Unit A2 1 61
Assessment Unit A2 2 95
Subject Code 5110

QAN 500/2493/0
QAN 500/2421/8

A CCEA Publication © 2007

Further copies of this publication may be downloaded from www.ccea.org.uk
Specimen Papers
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ADVANCED SUBSIDIARY (AS)
General Certificate of Education
2009

English Literature

Assessment Unit AS 2

assessing

The Study of Poetry Written after 1800
and the Study of Prose 1800-1945

SPECIMEN PAPER

TIME

2 hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Write your Centre number and Candidate Number on the Answer Booklet
provided.
Answer two questions. Answer one question from Section A and one
question from Section B.
Section A is open book.

INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

The total mark for this paper is 120.
All questions carry equal marks, ie 60 marks for each question.
Quality of written communication will be assessed in all questions.

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Section A: The Study of Poetry Written after 1800

Answer one question on your chosen pairing of poets.

Heaney: Opened Ground
Montague: New Selected Poems

1 John Montague and Seamus Heaney both write about the Irish past.

Compare and contrast the two poets’ treatment of the Irish past in two poems you have
studied.

Hopkins: Selected Poems
Dickinson: A Choice of Emily Dickinson’s Verse

2 Gerard Manley Hopkins and Emily Dickinson both express intense anguish in their poetry.

Compare and contrast how both poets express intense anguish in two poems you have
studied.

Duffy: Selected Poems
Lochhead: The Colour of Black and White

3 Carol Ann Duffy and Liz Lochhead both explore childhood experiences.

Compare and contrast the two poets’ exploration of childhood experiences in two poems
you have studied.

Thomas E: Selected Poems
Frost: Selected Poems

4 Edward Thomas and Robert Frost both write about the natural world.

Compare and contrast the two poets’ treatment of the natural world in two poems you have
studied.

Yeats: Selected Poems
Kavanagh: Selected Poems

5 William Butler Yeats and Patrick Kavanagh both express frustration with aspects of Ireland.

Compare and contrast how both poets express this frustration with aspects of Ireland in two
poems you have studied.

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Section B: The Study of Prose 1800-1945

Answer one question in this section.

Bronte: Wuthering Heights

Answer (a) or (b)

1 (a) The world of Wuthering Heights is too insular to offer significant insight into
nineteenth-century class division.

With reference to appropriately selected parts of the novel, and relevant contextual
information, give your response to the above view.

(b) Twenty-first century readers of Wuthering Heights are not likely to agree with mid-
nineteenth century readers who criticised the novel for its shocking impression of
humanity.

With reference to appropriately selected parts of the novel, and relevant contextual
information, give your response to the above view.

Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

Answer (a) or (b)

2 (a) The Great Gatsby is too concerned with conveying a picture of 1920s American
society to have relevance to modern readers.

With reference to appropriately selected parts of the novel, and relevant contextual
information, give your response to the above view.

(b) The Great Gatsby’s female characters suggest that Fitzgerald had very mixed views
about the emancipation which American women began to experience during the 1920s.

With reference to appropriately selected parts of the novel, and relevant contextual
information, give your response to the above view.

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Austen: Mansfield Park

Answer (a) or (b)

3 (a) Fanny Price is a very passive character; she is not a feminist’s idea of a heroine.

With reference to appropriately selected parts of the novel, and relevant contextual
information, give your response to the above view.

(b) The ideas about duty and decorum presented in Mansfield Park are nineteenth-century
notions. They are foreign to the mindset of the twenty-first century reader.

With reference to appropriately selected parts of the novel, and relevant contextual
information, give your response to the above view.

Forster: A Passage to India

Answer (a) or (b)

4 (a) With the disappearance of the Anglo-Indian world, A Passage to India has lost its
relevance for the twenty-first century reader.

With reference to appropriately selected parts of the novel, and relevant contextual
information, give your response to the above view.

(b) Fielding reflects the racial prejudice typical of the Anglo-Indian Raj.

With reference to appropriately selected parts of the novel, and relevant contextual
information, give your response to the above view.

Gaskell: North and South

Answer (a) or (b)

5 (a) Although written in the nineteenth century, North and South is still relevant today for
the insight that it gives into the conditions of the working-class.

With reference to appropriately selected parts of the novel, and relevant contextual
information, give your response to the above view.

(b) North and South is more of a romance than an industrial novel.

With reference to appropriately selected parts of the novel, and relevant contextual
information, give your response to the above view.

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Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge

Answer (a) or (b)

6 (a) Michael Henchard is a heroic figure.

With reference to appropriately selected parts of the novel, and relevant contextual
information, give your response to the above view.

(b) Nineteenth-century modernisation appears in a negative light in The Mayor of
Casterbridge.

With reference to appropriately selected parts of the novel, and relevant contextual
information, give your response to the above view.

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