Writer's methods — Macbeth — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Writer's methods
Writer's methods
What you need to know
How Shakespeare's form, structure and language create meaning: tragedy and the tragic hero, soliloquies and asides,
dramatic irony, verse and prose, and imagery such as blood, darkness, sleep and clothing.
Form: tragedy and the tragic hero; soliloquies and asides; blank verse, prose (the Porter, the sleepwalking scene) and the witches' rhyme; shared and broken-off lines.
Structure and imagery: dramatic irony, the play's speed, and the motifs of blood, sleep, darkness and clothes ('like a giant's robe').
Eduqas's Shakespeare questions don't mark context: the extract question (15 marks) and the whole-play essay (20 marks, plus 5 for spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and sentence structures) both mark response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2). Use context only in a phrase that supports an interpretation, and say which question each worked paragraph practises.
