Poetry and Prose - Paper 2

Worked examples (5)

• 1Analysing 'Significant Cigarettes' — interior monologue and character
• 2Analysing 'The Whistle' — atmosphere, tension, and the Gothic mode
• 3Analysing 'Significant Cigarettes' — Lev, objects, habits, and the cigarette as identity
• 4Analysing 'The Whistle' — the supernatural, narrative tension, and how Hill builds suspense
• 5Comparing Tremain and Hill on characters isolated from their community

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• 1Analysing structural irony in 'The Story of an Hour'
• 2Comparing 'The Necklace' and 'The Story of an Hour' — women and constraint
• 3Analysing 'The Story of an Hour' — Louise's interior liberation, the open window, and the language of spring
• 4Analysing 'The Necklace' — Mathilde's character, desire, pride, sacrifice, and the tragic twist
• 5Comparing Chopin and Maupassant on women's lives and illusions

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Worked examples (5)

• 1Analysing 'Significant Cigarettes' — interior monologue and character
• 2Analysing 'The Whistle' — atmosphere, tension, and the Gothic mode
• 3Analysing 'Significant Cigarettes' — Lev, objects, habits, and the cigarette as identity
• 4Analysing 'The Whistle' — the supernatural, narrative tension, and how Hill builds suspense
• 5Comparing Tremain and Hill on characters isolated from their community

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• 1Analysing anaphora and repetition — 'Still I rise' and its accumulative power
• 2Tonal range — defiance, celebration, sexuality, and spiritual transcendence across stanzas
• 3Extended metaphors — oil wells, gold mines, dust, and the moon
• 4Structure and stanza form — how the poem builds to the collective ending
• 5AO3 comparison — Angelou's 'Still I Rise' and Owen's 'Disabled' on power and powerlessness

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• 1Analysing retrospective narration in 'Night'
• 2Analysing psychological complexity in 'Night' — fear and shame
• 3Analysing the father's conversation — dialogue, understatement, and indirect care
• 4Language of darkness and night — imagery, sensory detail, and the nocturnal setting
• 5AO3 comparison — 'Night' and 'Significant Cigarettes' on psychological interiority

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Worked examples (5)

• 1Analysing structural irony in 'The Story of an Hour'
• 2Comparing 'The Necklace' and 'The Story of an Hour' — women and constraint
• 3Analysing 'The Story of an Hour' — Louise's interior liberation, the open window, and the language of spring
• 4Analysing 'The Necklace' — Mathilde's character, desire, pride, sacrifice, and the tragic twist
• 5Comparing Chopin and Maupassant on women's lives and illusions

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• 1Analysing 'An Unknown Girl' — henna as extended metaphor for identity, India, and belonging
• 2Analysing 'An Unknown Girl' — structure, the tension between 'I' and 'she', and the paratactic list
• 3Analysing 'The Bright Lights of Sarajevo' — intimacy, resilience, and human warmth amid destruction
• 4Analysing 'The Bright Lights of Sarajevo' — Marlboro lights, irony, and dark humour
• 5Comparing Alvi and Harrison on cultural identity and belonging

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• 1Owen — physical and psychological transformation ('Legless, sewn short' and 'the leap of purple')
• 2Owen — irony and contrast (before/after; girls vs women; cheers vs silence)
• 3Frost — narrative voice and dark pastoral setting
• 4Frost — the boy's loss and the community's response
• 5AO3 — comparing Owen and Frost on the loss of youth and agency

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Worked examples (5)

• 1Analysing 'An Unknown Girl' — henna as extended metaphor for identity, India, and belonging
• 2Analysing 'An Unknown Girl' — structure, the tension between 'I' and 'she', and the paratactic list
• 3Analysing 'The Bright Lights of Sarajevo' — intimacy, resilience, and human warmth amid destruction
• 4Analysing 'The Bright Lights of Sarajevo' — Marlboro lights, irony, and dark humour
• 5Comparing Alvi and Harrison on cultural identity and belonging

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Worked examples (5)

• 1Owen — physical and psychological transformation ('Legless, sewn short' and 'the leap of purple')
• 2Owen — irony and contrast (before/after; girls vs women; cheers vs silence)
• 3Frost — narrative voice and dark pastoral setting
• 4Frost — the boy's loss and the community's response
• 5AO3 — comparing Owen and Frost on the loss of youth and agency

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