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Title: How to get 20 and above out of 25 for the unseen poetry/prose essay question
Description: Full explanation and thorough step by step guide on each level of answering a literature unseen essay question with a result above 20/25 for both the poetry and the prose question garaunteeing and A*.Specifically for GCSE students but with the detail provided can be used for any literature student around the same level. Gives you the skill from scratch to answer such questions or if you already have it polishes it up to the best.
Description: Full explanation and thorough step by step guide on each level of answering a literature unseen essay question with a result above 20/25 for both the poetry and the prose question garaunteeing and A*.Specifically for GCSE students but with the detail provided can be used for any literature student around the same level. Gives you the skill from scratch to answer such questions or if you already have it polishes it up to the best.
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How to get 20 and above out of 25 for the unseen poetry/prose essay question
You usually have one hour fifteen minutes for this paper so that leaves you time to
Read the passage or form for general understanding
Re-read it now looking for points
Link ideas together
There are two key things- reading and writing
The first part is reading and during the first reading stage(bullet point 1) You START BY READING THE
QUESTION then read the passage and see what you understand and think of what part of that
understanding can help with the question
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Techniques
being rhyme schemes or structure, language being actual word and images being similes or
metaphors-anything that creates a picture in your head and all of these must relate to the fourth key
word-pain
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Words such as
convey or portray simply mean show or imply
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When it gets to the writing part you need to PEEL for each paragraph
P oint
E vidence
E valuation
L ink
Your point is quite self explanatory-what you are going to write about or what you are trying to
show
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Evaluation is the How part and it does not mean what does the evidence mean but break down the
evidence and show HOW it means that
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The trick to the HOW when it comes to words is SYNONYMS, this will easily get you marks and when
the question asks about feelings use synonyms of the underlined words and say the writer was trying
to make us feel SYNONYM
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DO NOT simply paraphrase the passage briefly give the meaning of the evidence
the EXPLAIN HOW (synonyms) it means that
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Try and have a wide variety of vocabulary as this gains you marks as well-read different pieces of
writing each day for five minutes from news papers to pamphlets to different genre novels
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Here is an example paragraph for the question:
How does the writer portray moments of seriousness and amusement in this passage
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This is conveyed by,
“Then I rehearse what to say and what to keep to myself
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In contrast, the fact that Minny is
preparing (synonym for rehearse) for the interview can suggest that she is taking it seriously and
wants to get the job
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This is
also the correct paragraph layout –all in one paragraph but evidence and points separated by comas
and inverted marks
Title: How to get 20 and above out of 25 for the unseen poetry/prose essay question
Description: Full explanation and thorough step by step guide on each level of answering a literature unseen essay question with a result above 20/25 for both the poetry and the prose question garaunteeing and A*.Specifically for GCSE students but with the detail provided can be used for any literature student around the same level. Gives you the skill from scratch to answer such questions or if you already have it polishes it up to the best.
Description: Full explanation and thorough step by step guide on each level of answering a literature unseen essay question with a result above 20/25 for both the poetry and the prose question garaunteeing and A*.Specifically for GCSE students but with the detail provided can be used for any literature student around the same level. Gives you the skill from scratch to answer such questions or if you already have it polishes it up to the best.