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Paper 1: Love through the Ages · Sections A, B & C · Select a mock to begin

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Section AOthello · 25 marks · ~50 minutes

Question 01 · 25 marks

"In Othello, love and trust are destroyed not from without but from within."

Discuss how Shakespeare presents the relationship between Othello and Desdemona in this extract and elsewhere in the play.

Your planning notes

Section BUnseen Poetry · 25 marks · ~45 minutes

Question 05 · 25 marks

Compare how the poets present desire as something close to possession or violence.

First approach

What do we know before we read a single line?

Poem A — Charlotte Mew, The Farmer's Bride (1912)

Gender of poet

Date

Context

Form

Poem B — Ted Hughes, Lovesong (1970)

Gender of poet

Date

Context

Form

ITAPE comparison

IIntroduction — how the poem begins, first impression of voice

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Comparative statement

Poem A — Charlotte Mew, The Farmer's Bride (1912)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Poem B — Ted Hughes, Lovesong (1970)

Quotation

Technique + effect

TTone — imagery, mood, semantic field

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Comparative statement

Poem A — Charlotte Mew, The Farmer's Bride (1912)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Poem B — Ted Hughes, Lovesong (1970)

Quotation

Technique + effect

AAural — sound choices, rhyme, sibilance, rhythm

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Comparative statement

Poem A — Charlotte Mew, The Farmer's Bride (1912)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Poem B — Ted Hughes, Lovesong (1970)

Quotation

Technique + effect

PPace — rhythm, stanza form, enjambement, pauses

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Comparative statement

Poem A — Charlotte Mew, The Farmer's Bride (1912)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Poem B — Ted Hughes, Lovesong (1970)

Quotation

Technique + effect

EEnding — closure, final image, resolution or irresolution

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Comparative statement

Poem A — Charlotte Mew, The Farmer's Bride (1912)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Poem B — Ted Hughes, Lovesong (1970)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Paragraph order reminder: Your strongest analytical point should open your essay — it sets the tone for the examiner. Your second strongest point should close it — the last thing they read before marking. Save your weakest for the middle.

Your ITAPE plan — Mock 1 Section B

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Section CComparing Texts · 25 marks · ~50 minutes

Question 06 · Either

"In the literature of love, desire is always about possession."

Compare how writers present desire and possession in two texts you have studied.

Question 07 · Or

Compare how writers present the ways in which love is shaped by social expectation in two texts you have studied.

Your planning notes — which question and why?

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Section AOthello · 25 marks · ~50 minutes

Question 01 · 25 marks

"Othello's love for Desdemona is ultimately a form of self-love."

Discuss how Shakespeare presents Othello's love in this extract and elsewhere in the play.

Your planning notes

Section BUnseen Poetry · 25 marks · ~45 minutes

Question 05 · 25 marks

Compare how the poets present love as something that transcends time or mortality.

First approach

What do we know before we read a single line?

Poem A — Edmund Spenser, Amoretti Sonnet 75 (1595)

Gender of poet

Date

Context

Form

Poem B — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43 (1850)

Gender of poet

Date

Context

Form

ITAPE comparison

IIntroduction — how the poem begins, first impression of voice

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Comparative statement

Poem A — Edmund Spenser, Amoretti Sonnet 75 (1595)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Poem B — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43 (1850)

Quotation

Technique + effect

TTone — imagery, mood, semantic field

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Comparative statement

Poem A — Edmund Spenser, Amoretti Sonnet 75 (1595)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Poem B — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43 (1850)

Quotation

Technique + effect

AAural — sound choices, rhyme, sibilance, rhythm

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Comparative statement

Poem A — Edmund Spenser, Amoretti Sonnet 75 (1595)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Poem B — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43 (1850)

Quotation

Technique + effect

PPace — rhythm, stanza form, enjambement, pauses

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Comparative statement

Poem A — Edmund Spenser, Amoretti Sonnet 75 (1595)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Poem B — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43 (1850)

Quotation

Technique + effect

EEnding — closure, final image, resolution or irresolution

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Comparative statement

Poem A — Edmund Spenser, Amoretti Sonnet 75 (1595)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Poem B — Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43 (1850)

Quotation

Technique + effect

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Section CComparing Texts · 25 marks · ~50 minutes

Question 06 · Either

"In the literature of love, time is always the enemy."

Compare how writers present love's relationship with time and mortality in two texts you have studied.

Question 07 · Or

Compare how writers present the tension between idealised love and its painful reality in two texts you have studied.

Your planning notes — which question and why?

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Section AOthello · 25 marks · ~50 minutes

Question 01 · 25 marks

"In Othello, the tragedy lies not in jealousy but in the failure of language."

Discuss how Shakespeare presents Othello in this extract and elsewhere in the play.

Your planning notes

Section BUnseen Poetry · 25 marks · ~45 minutes

Question 05 · 25 marks

Compare how the poets present the experience of love as a negotiation between the physical and something beyond it.

First approach

What do we know before we read a single line?

Poem A — John Keats, Bright Star (1819)

Gender of poet

Date

Context

Form

Poem B — George Herbert, Love (III) (1633)

Gender of poet

Date

Context

Form

ITAPE comparison

IIntroduction — how the poem begins, first impression of voice

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Comparative statement

Poem A — John Keats, Bright Star (1819)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Poem B — George Herbert, Love (III) (1633)

Quotation

Technique + effect

TTone — imagery, mood, semantic field

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Comparative statement

Poem A — John Keats, Bright Star (1819)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Poem B — George Herbert, Love (III) (1633)

Quotation

Technique + effect

AAural — sound choices, rhyme, sibilance, rhythm

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Comparative statement

Poem A — John Keats, Bright Star (1819)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Poem B — George Herbert, Love (III) (1633)

Quotation

Technique + effect

PPace — rhythm, stanza form, enjambement, pauses

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Comparative statement

Poem A — John Keats, Bright Star (1819)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Poem B — George Herbert, Love (III) (1633)

Quotation

Technique + effect

EEnding — closure, final image, resolution or irresolution

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Comparative statement

Poem A — John Keats, Bright Star (1819)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Poem B — George Herbert, Love (III) (1633)

Quotation

Technique + effect

Your ITAPE plan — Mock 3 Section B

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Section CComparing Texts · 25 marks · ~50 minutes

Question 06 · Either

"In the literature of love, physical desire and spiritual feeling can never be reconciled."

Compare how writers present the conflict between physical and spiritual love in two texts you have studied.

Question 07 · Or

Compare how writers present love as something that transforms or diminishes the individual in two texts you have studied.

Your planning notes — which question and why?