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English Literature
AQA GCSE English Literature
Paper 2

AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702

AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 2

Modern texts and poetry

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
Marks: 96
Weighting: 60% of the GCSE

From the AQA specification (opens in a new tab), Version 1.3 28 September 2022, PDF page 9.

3 sections · 79 revision notes · 11 past papers

What’s on Paper 2

3.2.1 Modern texts

An Inspector Calls · Animal Farm · Answering the modern text question43 notes

3.2.1 An Inspector Calls

Context
Plot overview

Paper 2 past papers

June 2025 Paper 2
Question paper Mark scheme

June 2024 Paper 2
Question paper Mark scheme

Other papers

Social responsibility

Age and generations

Guilt and responsibility

Writer's methods

3.2.1 Animal Farm

Context
Plot overview
Chapters 1 and 2
Chapters 3 and 4
Chapters 5 and 6
Chapters 7 and 8
Chapters 9 and 10
Napoleon
Snowball
Squealer
Old Major
Boxer
Benjamin and Clover
Mr Jones and the farmers
Power and corruption
Propaganda and language
Revolution and idealism
Equality and class
Violence and fear
Education and ignorance
Writer's methods
Key quotations

3.2.1 Answering the modern text question

An Inspector Calls essay question
Animal Farm essay question

Modern texts overview

3.2.2 The poetry anthology

Power and Conflict · Love and Relationships · Answering the poetry comparison question34 notes

3.2.2 Power and Conflict

Power and Conflict overview
Ozymandias
London
Extract from The Prelude
My Last Duchess
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Exposure
Storm on the Island
Bayonet Charge
Remains
Poppies
War Photographer
Tissue
The Émigrée
Kamikaze
Checking Out Me History

3.2.2 Love and Relationships

Love and Relationships overview
When We Two Parted
Love's Philosophy
Porphyria's Lover

3.2.2 Answering the poetry comparison question

Comparing Power and Conflict poems
Comparing Love and Relationships poems

The poetry anthology overview

3.2.3 Unseen poetry

Unseen poetry2 notes

3.2.3 Unseen poetry

Analysing an unseen poem
Comparing two unseen poems

Unseen poetry overview

All AQA GCSE English Literature past papers

Sonnet 29 – 'I think of thee!'

Letters from Yorkshire

The Farmer's Bride

Mother, any distance

Before You Were Mine

Climbing My Grandfather