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English Literature
OCR GCSE English Literature
Paper 2

OCR GCSE English Literature · J352

OCR GCSE English Literature Paper 2

Exploring poetry and Shakespeare

Length: 2 hours
Marks: 80
Weighting: 50% of the GCSE

From the OCR specification (opens in a new tab), Version 3.0 (November 2025), PDF page 10.

2 sections · 138 revision notes · 8 past papers

What’s on Paper 2

2c Poetry across time

Love and Relationships · Conflict · Youth and Age · Unseen poetry · Answering the poetry question52 notes

2c Love and Relationships

Love and Relationships overview
A Song

Paper 2 past papers

June 2025 Paper 2
Question paper Mark scheme

June 2024 Paper 2
Question paper Mark scheme

Other papers

I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine

In Paris With You

Warming Her Pearls

Dusting the Phone

Looking at Your Hands

2c Conflict

Conflict overview
Envy
Boat Stealing
The Destruction of Sennacherib
There’s a Certain Slant of Light
Vergissmeinnicht
What Were They Like?
Lament
Flag
Honour Killing
Partition
Colonization in Reverse
Papa-T
We Lived Happily during the War
Thirteen
Songs for the People

2c Youth and Age

Youth and Age overview
Holy Thursday
The Bluebell
Midnight on the Great Western
Out, Out—
Baby Song
You're
Cold Knap Lake
My First Weeks
Venus's-flytraps
Love
Theme for English B
Happy Birthday Moon
Prayer
Tea With Our Grandmothers
Equilibrium

2c Unseen poetry

Reading an unseen poem
Comparing a cluster poem with an unseen poem

2c Answering the poetry question

Part (a): comparing a cluster poem with an unseen poem
Part (b): exploring a second poem from the cluster

Poetry across time overview

2c Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet · The Merchant of Venice · Macbeth · Much Ado About Nothing · Answering the Shakespeare question86 notes

2c Romeo and Juliet

Context
Plot overview
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
Act 4
Act 5
Romeo
Juliet
Mercutio
Tybalt
Friar Laurence
The Nurse
Lord and Lady Capulet
Love
Conflict and violence
Fate and free will
Family and marriage
Youth and age
Writer's methods
Key quotations

2c The Merchant of Venice

Context
Plot overview
Act 1
Act 2

2c Macbeth

Context
Plot overview
Act 1
Act 2

2c Much Ado About Nothing

Context
Plot overview
Act 1
Act 2

2c Answering the Shakespeare question

The extract-based question
The discursive question

Shakespeare overview

All OCR GCSE English Literature past papers

Prejudice and antisemitism

Mercy, justice and the law

Money and trade

Love and marriage

Friendship and loyalty

Appearance and reality

Act 3

Appearance and reality

Masculinity and gender

Don Pedro and Don John

Leonato

Dogberry and the watch

Love and marriage

Deception and appearances

Honour and reputation

What’s on Paper 2

2c Poetry across time

2c Love and Relationships

Paper 2 past papers

2025 papers

2024 papers

2023 papers

2022 papers

2021 papers

2c Conflict

2c Youth and Age

2c Unseen poetry

2c Answering the poetry question

2c Shakespeare

2c Romeo and Juliet

2c The Merchant of Venice

2c Macbeth

2c Much Ado About Nothing

2c Answering the Shakespeare question

Sample Set papers1 paper