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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 1 2 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. 3 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. 4 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. 5 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. 6 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. 7
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