Writer's methods — Romeo and Juliet — 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, 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.
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.
