AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Paper 1, Paper 2
- Revise: Duncan and Malcolm
Two consecutive lines of verse whose final words rhyme.
- Revise: The supernatural
- Revise: Writer's methods
Two successive verse lines whose endings rhyme.
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GCSE English Literature · key term
Two successive lines of verse whose final words rhyme.
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Paper 1, Paper 2
Two consecutive lines of verse whose final words rhyme.
Two successive verse lines whose endings rhyme.
Build an argument using both the extract and the wider play. Analyse dramatic choices, such as entrances, asides and the final rhyming couplet, alongside individual words.
Part (a): track changes within the passage rather than treating every line as evidence of the same mood. Use terms such as aside, soliloquy, metaphor and rhyming couplet when they explain an effect.
Part (a): use precise terms such as simile, imperative, enjambment and rhyming couplet where they help explain how Shakespeare presents Orsino.
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A pair of successive lines of verse whose final words rhyme.
Two consecutive lines of verse whose endings rhyme.
Two successive lines of verse whose endings rhyme.
Two successive verse lines whose final words rhyme.
Two consecutive lines of poetry whose final words rhyme.
Two successive lines of verse whose end words rhyme; the lines need not be in iambic pentameter.
Two successive lines whose endings rhyme. The closing couplets give Brutus's death and the play's ending a sense of finality.
Two consecutive lines whose final words rhyme.
A pair of consecutive lines whose end words rhyme.
Paper 1, Paper 2
Revise: The supernaturalThe rhyming couplet contrasts what she cannot do with what she can: she can torment him through storms, but cannot destroy his vessel. This supports a reading of supernatural power as dangerous but restricted, rather than absolute control over every outcome.
Two successive verse lines whose endings rhyme.
A pair of consecutive verse lines whose endings rhyme.
Two consecutive lines of verse whose final words rhyme.
Two successive verse lines whose final words rhyme.
Paper 2
Two successive lines whose end words rhyme.
Revise: The Destruction of SennacheribEach four-line stanza contains two rhyming couplets: the first stanza, for example, pairs ‘fold’ with ‘gold’ and ‘sea’ with ‘Galilee’. The regular pattern makes the story memorable and gives it a strong sense of movement and control.
Two consecutive lines whose final words rhyme.
A pair of successive lines whose endings rhyme.
Two neighbouring lines of poetry whose endings rhyme.
Two successive lines linked by rhyme.
Component 1
Revise: Act 2His rhyming couplets often give his observations a balanced, reflective quality. For example, ‘Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; / And vice sometimes by action dignified.’ The paired lines set opposing possibilities beside one another.
A pair of successive lines whose final words rhyme.
Two successive lines of poetry whose final words rhyme.
Two consecutive verse lines whose final words rhyme.
Two consecutive verse lines with rhyming end words.
Two successive lines of poetry whose final words rhyme.
Two successive lines of verse whose endings rhyme.
Two successive lines of verse linked by rhyme.
Two successive lines of poetry whose end words rhyme.
A pair of consecutive lines whose final words rhyme.
A pair of consecutive lines whose endings rhyme.
Two successive lines whose final words rhyme.
Two consecutive lines of poetry whose endings rhyme.
A pair of consecutive lines whose end words rhyme.
Two successive lines of poetry linked by rhyme.
Two consecutive lines of verse whose final words rhyme.
Two successive verse lines whose ending sounds rhyme.
Two successive lines of verse whose endings rhyme.
Two successive verse lines whose final words rhyme, often used to give a thought, speech or scene a sense of closure.
Two successive lines of verse whose endings rhyme.
A pair of consecutive lines whose final words rhyme.
Two successive lines of verse whose end words rhyme.
A pair of consecutive verse lines whose endings rhyme.
Two consecutive lines of verse whose endings rhyme.
Two consecutive lines of verse whose final words rhyme.
Two successive verse lines whose endings rhyme.
A pair of successive lines linked by rhyme.