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GCSE
English Language and Literature
H474/03: Reading as a writer, writing as a reader
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A Level
INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question numbers must
be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer one question in Section A and both questions in Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 64.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• This document has 8 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
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Section A
Reading as a writer
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
Ian McEwan: Atonement
Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake
Answer Question 1 or Question 2.
Use the text that you have studied in your answer.
You should spend about 1 hour on this section.
1 In what ways does the writer use narrative to help us see things differently?
You should range across the text to explore how features such as character, setting
and viewpoint are used to provide a fresh or original view of events, the function of
the unexpected in the novel as a whole, and the broader generic context. [32]
Or
2 In what ways does the writer use narrative to build up the reader’s expectations?
You should range across the text to explore how features such as character, setting
and viewpoint are used to heighten our expectations in the novel, the function of
suspense in the
novel as a whole, and the broader generic context.
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Section
B
Writing
as a
reader
Answer Question 3(a) and 3(b) in this section.
You should spend about 40 minutes on Question 3(a) and about 20 minutes on Question
3(b).
3
(a) Choose one of the storylines opposite to develop as the opening of a narrative.
Write your narrative, making your own choices about the story’s starting point and
linguistic techniques.
You are writing the opening to a narrative, and can use any one of the bullet points
as the beginning of your story.
You are not expected to write the full story.
You should write approximately 500 words.
(b) Write a commentary on the narrative opening you have produced in 3(a).
Explain the narrative and linguistic choices you have made in response to the storyline
prompts.
You should write approximately 250 words.
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Either
Storyline 1
• The moment Casey entered it was as if the forest knew.
• Something dropped without a sound on the path behind Casey. Casey was shut
in.
• ‘Your kind cut us down! You make us bleed!’ Where did that voice come from?
• It came from the curtain of leaves.
• Now there was no doubt the trees themselves were speaking: ‘You will never
leave this forest again!’
Or
Storyline 2
• There was a huge explosion; it was as if the house had vanished.
• But why had the accident happened? Was it an accident?
• Who lived there?
• Were there any victims?
• Why did no-one try to prevent the disaster?
• Might it have been better to begin this story in another way?
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GCSE
English Language and Literature
H474/03: Reading as a writer, writing as a reader
*1357034690*
A Level
INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question numbers must
be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer one question in Section A and both questions in Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 64.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• This document has 8 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
© OCR 2025 [601/4704/0 ] DC (PQ) 347141/2
OCR is an exempt Charity
Turn over
BLANK PAGE
, 2
Section A
Reading as a writer
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
Ian McEwan: Atonement
Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake
Answer Question 1 or Question 2.
Use the text that you have studied in your answer.
You should spend about 1 hour on this section.
1 In what ways does the writer use narrative to help us see things differently?
You should range across the text to explore how features such as character, setting
and viewpoint are used to provide a fresh or original view of events, the function of
the unexpected in the novel as a whole, and the broader generic context. [32]
Or
2 In what ways does the writer use narrative to build up the reader’s expectations?
You should range across the text to explore how features such as character, setting
and viewpoint are used to heighten our expectations in the novel, the function of
suspense in the
novel as a whole, and the broader generic context.
© OCR 2025 H474/03 Jun25
, 3
Turn over
Section
B
Writing
as a
reader
Answer Question 3(a) and 3(b) in this section.
You should spend about 40 minutes on Question 3(a) and about 20 minutes on Question
3(b).
3
(a) Choose one of the storylines opposite to develop as the opening of a narrative.
Write your narrative, making your own choices about the story’s starting point and
linguistic techniques.
You are writing the opening to a narrative, and can use any one of the bullet points
as the beginning of your story.
You are not expected to write the full story.
You should write approximately 500 words.
(b) Write a commentary on the narrative opening you have produced in 3(a).
Explain the narrative and linguistic choices you have made in response to the storyline
prompts.
You should write approximately 250 words.
© OCR 2025 H474/03 Jun25
, 4
Either
Storyline 1
• The moment Casey entered it was as if the forest knew.
• Something dropped without a sound on the path behind Casey. Casey was shut
in.
• ‘Your kind cut us down! You make us bleed!’ Where did that voice come from?
• It came from the curtain of leaves.
• Now there was no doubt the trees themselves were speaking: ‘You will never
leave this forest again!’
Or
Storyline 2
• There was a huge explosion; it was as if the house had vanished.
• But why had the accident happened? Was it an accident?
• Who lived there?
• Were there any victims?
• Why did no-one try to prevent the disaster?
• Might it have been better to begin this story in another way?
END OF QUESTION PAPER
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