Form

The type of literary work and its conventions, such as a prose novel’s use of narration or a play’s use of dialogue and stage directions.

The type of text and its conventions, such as a stage play written as a tragedy.

Form includes the conventions of tragedy and the ways characters speak. Structure concerns how he orders events, repeats ideas and changes the pace. These methods work together: a private speech about murder means something different when it comes immediately before the murder than it would afterwards.

The kind of text and its conventions, such as a play or a romantic comedy.

Part (a): begin with what Shakespeare presents in the extract, then explain how specific language, form and structure create that impression. Naming a technique is not analysis.

In part (a), use the printed extract only. Explain how language, form and structure create effects; do not spend time on historical context.

Part (a), AO2: discuss form or whole-text structure only where it helps explain the extract; keep your evidence centred on the printed passage.

The overall type and conventions of a work, such as a play’s use of romantic comedy.

The type and manner of a literary work, such as a prose novel or a narrative presented through letters.

The type of literary work and the conventions it uses. Pride and Prejudice is a prose novel that combines courtship with a comedy of manners.

The way a literary work is organised as a type of writing, such as a novel or fictional autobiography.

The literary type and way a text is presented, such as a novella containing witness accounts, letters and a confession.

The type of text and dramatic genre a writer uses, such as a play, crime thriller or morality play.

A poem’s type or overall arrangement, such as a sonnet or dramatic monologue.

The type and overall shape of a poem, including features such as sonnet form, stanza pattern and rhyme.

The overall type or shape of a text, such as a sonnet, including its organising conventions.

The type of work and its conventions, such as a tragedy; form can also refer to the organisation of speech as verse or prose.

Form includes the play’s tragic shape and the use of verse and prose. Presentation includes what an audience sees and hears: entrances, exits, physical actions, props and offstage sounds.

The kind of literary work and the conventions it uses, such as a dramatic tragedy or a sonnet.

The type and shape of writing, such as a play, verse, prose or a chant.

The literary type or overall mode of a work, such as a novel, fictional autobiography or Bildungsroman.

The overall type or shape of a literary work, such as a novella, ghost story or moral fable.

The kind of text and its conventions: for example, a prose novel rather than a play or poem.

The kind of text and its conventions, such as a novel, drama or coming-of-age narrative.

Form concerns the kind of story she tells: a first-person, coming-of-age novel. Structure concerns how she arranges it, from the order of events to interruptions, contrasts and the ending. A single moment can involve all three.

The kind of text and the way its story is presented: for example, a novel narrated in the first person.

The type and genre of a text: for example, a stage play that also uses conventions of a crime thriller and a morality play.

The type of text and its conventions. In drama, meaning is created through performed speech, action, stage directions and the audience’s experience.

The kind of writing and its conventions, such as prose fiction or drama, including how narration or performance communicates meaning.

The type of work and its literary conventions, such as a play, tragedy or sonnet.

Form includes the play’s identity as a tragedy and the poetic forms within it. Structure concerns the order of events, the contrasts between scenes and the speed of the action. Language includes imagery, wordplay and the particular words characters choose.

The type of text and its conventions, such as a tragedy, and the shape of its writing, such as verse or prose.

The type and conventions of a literary work, such as a stage play or romantic comedy, and its modes of writing, such as verse and prose.

The type or overall design of a poem, such as a sonnet or a dramatic monologue.

The type of literary work and its broad conventions. Silas Marner is a prose novel combining realistic representation with features of a moral tale.

The type of literary work and its ways of presenting material. A prose novel can combine narration, dialogue, characters’ thoughts and embedded letters.

The type of a literary work and its ways of presenting material, such as a prose novel combining realistic description with features of a fable.

The kind of text and the conventions through which it tells its story, such as a novel incorporating letters and first-person accounts.

The type and manner of a text’s presentation, such as prose narration and dialogue.

The type of writing and the ways it presents its material, such as prose narration combined with dialogue in a novel.

The shape and mode of a literary work, including prose narration, letters and direct speech.

The type and overall organisation of a poem, including its use of verse, rhyme, metre and stanza patterns.

The type or overall design of a literary work, such as a sonnet, ballad or dramatic monologue.

The kind of poem and its overall conventions, including whether it is a dramatic monologue, a sonnet or free verse.

The type of poem and its organising conventions, including features such as an ode, sonnet or elegy and its patterns of rhythm and rhyme.

The type and overall organisation of a literary work, including features such as its speaker, stanza pattern and rhyme scheme.

The type and organising conventions of a poem, such as a sonnet or free verse.

A poem’s overall type or pattern, such as a sonnet, including conventions of length, rhyme and rhythm.

The type of text and its broader conventions, such as a novel, drama or poem. Great Expectations is a novel of development told through fictional first-person recollection.

The kind of text and its conventions: for example, a prose novel can combine narration, dialogue and letters.

The type and manner of a literary work, such as a novella written in prose or a narrative containing letters.

The type of text and its literary conventions: for example, a novel, fictional autobiography or Bildungsroman.

The kind of literary work and its conventions, including whether it is a novel, novella, poem or play, and how it is narrated.

The kind and organisation of a poem, including its stanza pattern, rhyme and metre.

The organisation and poetic conventions of a poem, including its stanza pattern, rhyme and metre.

The type or overall shape of a poem, including conventions such as those of a sonnet or free verse.

The organisation and poetic shape of a text, including stanza pattern, rhyme and rhythm.

The type of a literary work and the ways it is presented, such as a dramatic comedy or a speech written in verse.

The kind of literary work and its manner of presentation, such as a prose novel presented as a fictional autobiography.

The literary type and manner of presentation of a text, such as a prose novel using narration, dialogue and letters.

The type and manner of a literary work, such as a prose novella incorporating witness accounts and a confession.

The overall type and shape of a poem, including its organisation into lines and stanzas and its use of verse patterns.

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