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WJEC GCSE English Literature revision notes

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

  1. AOAssessment objectives (regulator-set)
  2. AO1Read, understand and respond to texts; use textual references including quotations to support and illustrate interpretations
  3. AO2Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology
  4. AO3Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written
  5. C1Component 1: Shakespeare and poetry
  6. C1.A.M1Macbeth — extract-based question + thematic essay across the play
  7. C1.A.M2Romeo and Juliet — extract-based question + thematic essay across the play
  8. C1.A.M3The Merchant of Venice — extract-based question + thematic essay
  9. C1.A.SKSkill: dramatic methods (soliloquy, dramatic irony, stagecraft), context (AO3) and SPaG (AO4)
  10. C1.B.ANThe Eduqas anthology of 18 poems: Wordsworth, Browning, Tennyson, Owen, Heaney, Duffy, Armitage and others; named-poet questions
  11. C1.B.SKSkill: poetic methods, comparative argument, sustained engagement with form, structure and language
  12. C1.B.UNUnseen poetry comparison: a previously unstudied poem compared with one from the anthology cluster
  13. C2Component 2: Post-1914 prose/drama, 19th-century prose, unseen poetry
  14. C2.A.M1An Inspector Calls — J. B. Priestley (drama)
  15. C2.A.M2Lord of the Flies — William Golding (prose)
  16. C2.A.M3Anita and Me — Meera Syal (prose)
  17. C2.A.SKSkill: extract + whole-text essay; AO1, AO2, AO3 weighted equally
  18. C2.B.M1Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson
  19. C2.B.M2A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
  20. C2.B.M3Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
  21. C2.B.SKSkill: 19th-century context, gothic / Victorian conventions; SPaG (AO4) carries weight here
  22. C2.C.SK1Skill: analyse a previously unstudied poem (typically 20th–21st century) for AO1 and AO2
  23. C2.C.SK2Skill: compare two unseen poems on theme, voice, methods and effect
  24. C2.C.SK3Skill: write a structured comparative response within strict timing — Eduqas’ section C is timed at ~40 minutes