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OCR GCSE English Literature revision notes

Concise notes per spec point, written in plain English with worked examples. AI-generated, admin-verified.

  1. AO1Read, understand and respond to texts; use textual references including quotations to support and illustrate interpretations
  2. AO2Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate
  3. AO3Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written
  4. AO4Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar (Shakespeare and 19th-century prose only)
  5. C01.A.M1An Inspector Calls — J. B. Priestley (drama set text)
  6. C01.A.M3Animal Farm — George Orwell (prose set text)
  7. C01.A.SKSkill: extract-based question and whole-text essay; integrate AO1, AO2 and AO3 with sustained quotation
  8. C01.B.M1The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson
  9. C01.B.M2A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
  10. C01.B.SKSkill: 19th-century context, gothic/Victorian conventions, social/historical setting; AO3 carries the highest weight here
  11. C02.A.CL1Conflict cluster — Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Carol Ann Duffy and others; comparing presentations of conflict across the cluster
  12. C02.A.CL2Love and relationships cluster — Browning, Rossetti, Larkin, Duffy and others; comparing presentations of love
  13. C02.A.CL3Youth and age cluster — Wordsworth, Yeats, Heaney and others; comparing voice and time across the cluster
  14. C02.A.SKSkill: poetic methods (form, sound, structure, imagery), use of subject terminology, sustained comparative argument
  15. C02.A.UNUnseen poem comparison: a previously unstudied poem compared with one set poem; AO1, AO2, AO3 weighted equally
  16. C02.B.M1Romeo and Juliet — extract-based question + whole-play essay
  17. C02.B.M2Macbeth — extract-based question + whole-play essay
  18. C02.B.M3The Merchant of Venice — extract-based question + whole-play essay
  19. C02.B.SKSkill: dramatic methods (soliloquy, dramatic irony, stagecraft), Elizabethan/Jacobean context (AO3) and SPaG (AO4)