AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
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GCSE English Literature · key term
The type or category of a literary work, such as comedy, tragedy or romance.
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Paper 1
Paper 1
A literary work's type or category, such as comedy, tragedy or romance; a work may combine features of several genres.
Revise: Writer's methodsShakespeare's methods work together in The Tempest. Its form includes its genre and its use of dramatic speech, songs and spectacle. Its structure concerns the order and arrangement of events.
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Paper 2
The type of a literary work, such as comedy or tragedy, with conventions that shape an audience’s expectations.
Revise: Writer's methodsLanguage is his choice and arrangement of words; form includes the play’s genre and its use of verse or prose; structure is the ordering and connection of events. In The Merchant of Venice, these work together to move an audience between amusement, suspense, relief and discomfort.