Writer's methods — Romeo and Juliet — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Writer's methods
Writer's methods
What you need to know
How Shakespeare's form, structure and language create meaning: tragedy, the sonnets of the Prologue and the lovers' first meeting,
verse and prose, soliloquies, dramatic irony, oxymoron, light and dark imagery, foreshadowing and the compressed time scheme.
The Prologue and the shared sonnet, blank verse, rhyming couplets and prose, and who speaks which.
Oxymoron, light and dark imagery, and foreshadowing such as 'death-mark'd love'.
Dramatic irony, comic relief from the Nurse, Mercutio and the servants, and the four-day time scheme.
Edexcel's Shakespeare question has two parts: part (a) on the printed extract marks only language, form and structure (AO2), so context earns nothing there; part (b) on the play elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1, 15 marks) and context (AO3, 5 marks), not language analysis. Say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
