Answer
one question from this section.
Spend about 45 minutes on this section.
Each
question carries 27 marks.
Refer to your Anthology; Prose (pages 59 to 93)
EITHER
1. Compare the ways in which the main characters of Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit and Growing Up learn about themselves and people around them.
OR
2. In Flight the grandfather loses something, but he comes to terms with it.
Compare how Doris Lessing and the writer of one other story in the selection present characters dealing with loss.
Write about:
o What the characters lose
o How the characters deal with their losses
o How the writers show the characters' thoughts and feelings
OR
3. Compare how the settings contribute to the effects of the stories in The End of Something and one other story in the selection.
Answer one question from
this section.
Spend about one hour on this section.
Each question
carries 36 marks.
Refer to your Anthology; Poetry
EITHER
23 Compare how actions against other people are shown in The Laboratory by Robert Browning and three other poems: one other pre-1914 poem, one by Carol Ann Duffy and one by Simon Armitage.
OR
24 In My Last Duchess by Robert Browning and Kid by Simon Armitage the poets create a character through the character's own words, by using the first person.
(a) Compare the ways they achieve this.
(b) Compare these two poems with another poem from the Pre-1914 Poetry Bank and one poem by Carol Ann Duffy.
Remember to compare:
* the characters in the poems
* the methods the poets use to create the characters.
OR
25 (a) Compare how admiration is presented in Homecoming by Simon Armitage and Sonnet 13 by William Shakespeare.
(b) Compare these poems with two more poems, one by Carol Ann Duffy and one from the Pre-1914 Poetry bank.