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    English Paper 2 Example Questions

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    The document provides a list of 17 discussion questions about literary works. It instructs students to discuss how certain techniques are used in two works they have studied, and the purpose of using those techniques. The document suggests ways for students to collect information on characters, language, tension, form, content and other elements, and how they relate to purposes like alienation, challenging understanding, or stimulating emotional response. It aims to help students understand what examiners are looking for in their analysis of literary works.

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    The document provides a list of 17 discussion questions about literary works. It instructs students to discuss how certain techniques are used in two works they have studied, and the purpose of using those techniques. The document suggests ways for students to collect information on characters, language, tension, form, content and other elements, and how they relate to purposes like alienation, challenging understanding, or stimulating emotional response. It aims to help students understand what examiners are looking for in their analysis of literary works.

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    The document provides a list of 17 discussion questions about literary works. It instructs students to discuss how certain techniques are used in two works they have studied, and the purpose of using those techniques. The document suggests ways for students to collect information on characters, language, tension, form, content and other elements, and how they relate to purposes like alienation, challenging understanding, or stimulating emotional response. It aims to help students understand what examiners are looking for in their analysis of literary works.

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    PAPER TWO WORK BOOK

    NOTE:
     all questions want you to discuss how and for what purpose.
     The question will establish the petametres… so the ‘how’ will be prescribed and the
    ‘purpose’ might be.
    Let’s work out the types of things the markers are looking for so that we can create some
    ways to collect information.

    1. Discuss the ways that writers have presented characters that feel alienated from
    their society in two of the works you have studied.

    2. “Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the upmost possible
    degree.” Discuss some of the features that make the two works you have studied
    great literature.

    3. Tension frequently builds to a critical point in literary works. How is tension created
    in two works you have studied and for what purpose?

    4. To what extent do the form and content of two works you have studied reflect the
    time and place in which they were written?

    5. “We are asleep until we fall in love.” To what extent has falling in or out of love
    changed the destiny or fate of characters in two works that you have studied?

    6. To what extent do the formal characteristics of genre influence meaning in two


    works that you have studied?

    7. In what ways have two of the works you have studied explored the role of the
    individual in society, and what conclusions is it possible to draw from these
    explorations?

    8. Thinking critically often involves the ability to see the world in a variety of ways. How
    have writers in two works that you have studied used form and content to challenge
    your own understanding of the world?

    9. In two of the works you have studied, how have writers used foreshadowing, and
    what is the effect of this foreshadowing?

    10. Discuss the effect of contrast and/or juxtaposition in two of the works that you have
    studied.

    11. “If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.” How has
    suffering been described in two works you have studied, and how could this be said
    to give meaning to life?
    12. A literary work can be celebrated in one time or culture, but banned in another. In
    two works that you have studied, discuss the ways that these works may be
    understood or received in different ways.

    13. In literature, tension is often established through contrasting the ‘new’ with the
    ‘old’. In two works that you have studied, how has this kind of tension been
    represented and to what effect?

    14. Figurative language includes things like metaphor, simile, personification, oxymoron,
    and hyperbole. How is figurative language used and to what effect in two works that
    you have studied?

    15. How is the identity of characters challenged or how does it change in two works that
    you have studied?

    16. “Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily.” In two works that you have studied, how is
    the end of the world anticipated, and how have characters responded to this?

    17. In two works you have studied, what techniques have writers used to stimulate an
    emotional response in the reader?

    HOW/ WAYS PURPOSE


    o Characters (what they o Alienation in society
    symbolise) o The individual vs society
    o Language (connotations) o Voice of the marginalised
    o Tension (conflict) o Challenge ideologies
    o Form (structure) o Resilience
    o Content (narrative arc)
    o Relationships
    o Genre - form (interaction
    between stage and audience or
    novel and single reader)
    o Point-of-view
    o Foreshadowing
    o Binary oppositions
    o A journey or a quest in the
    narrative

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