AQA B A-level English Literature
What is genre? - correct answer a way of categorising texts
How can genre be arranged? - correct answer arranged around ways of writing (such as
poetry/drama/prose) around content (such as crime, politics) around purpose (such as satire)
What does genre involve? - correct answer grouping texts by type - an so connecting texts
What is an example of a way of grouping literary texts? - correct answer through their connections with
other texts, with which they have things in common
What does significance involve? - correct answer weighing up all of the potential contributions to the
ways in which a text can be analysed and then finding potential meanings and interpretations
What are some examples of a way a text can be analysed? - correct answer the way the text is
constructed and written, contexts that can be applied, aspects of genre, and possible theoretical
approaches
What are you required to do for AO1? - correct answer to articulate informed, personal and creative
responses to literary texts, using associated concepts and terminology, and coherent, accurate written
expression
What does AO1 describe? - correct answer the need for good writing and use of terminology appropriate
to the task you are doing
What is required for AO2? - correct answer to analyse ways in which meanings are shaped in literary
texts
What does AO2 describe? - correct answer the need to analyse authorial methods of writing, with the
shaping of meanings a key idea here, indicating that you should link an author's way of writing with the
meaning that arise from them
What does AO3 require? - correct answer to demonstrate understanding of the significance and
influence of the contexts in which literary texts are written and received
What is genre? - correct answer a way of categorising texts
How can genre be arranged? - correct answer arranged around ways of writing (such as
poetry/drama/prose) around content (such as crime, politics) around purpose (such as satire)
What does genre involve? - correct answer grouping texts by type - an so connecting texts
What is an example of a way of grouping literary texts? - correct answer through their connections with
other texts, with which they have things in common
What does significance involve? - correct answer weighing up all of the potential contributions to the
ways in which a text can be analysed and then finding potential meanings and interpretations
What are some examples of a way a text can be analysed? - correct answer the way the text is
constructed and written, contexts that can be applied, aspects of genre, and possible theoretical
approaches
What are you required to do for AO1? - correct answer to articulate informed, personal and creative
responses to literary texts, using associated concepts and terminology, and coherent, accurate written
expression
What does AO1 describe? - correct answer the need for good writing and use of terminology appropriate
to the task you are doing
What is required for AO2? - correct answer to analyse ways in which meanings are shaped in literary
texts
What does AO2 describe? - correct answer the need to analyse authorial methods of writing, with the
shaping of meanings a key idea here, indicating that you should link an author's way of writing with the
meaning that arise from them
What does AO3 require? - correct answer to demonstrate understanding of the significance and
influence of the contexts in which literary texts are written and received
