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EngPrep · A-level English Literature · AQA 7712 · Paper 1: Love through the agesKnowledge organisers, exam packs and free quizzes for AQA A-level English Literature A, starting with Paper 1, Love through the ages: Othello for Section A and The Great Gatsby for the Section C comparison. Every quotation is checked against the text, and every pack shows a full Band 5 answer.
Paper 1 asks how writers across four centuries present love.
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1870Image credits: Martin Droeshout, First Folio (1623); Ford Madox Brown, Romeo and Juliet (1870), Delaware Art Museum. Both Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, via Wikimedia Commons.
Every answer is marked out of 25 in five bands, with all five assessment objectives: AO1 argument, AO2 methods, AO3 context, AO4 connections and AO5 interpretations.
The most popular Shakespeare play for Love through the ages. The extract question, a critical view to debate, and the whole play from memory: plot, characters, critics and context, with every quotation checked against the Folio-based text.
PreviewA two-page organiser for each part of your revision.
PreviewHow to answer the Section A question, step by step.
PreviewChecked quotations by theme, and critical views to debate.
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Fitzgerald’s novel of love, money and the American Dream, prepared for the Section C comparison with pre-1900 love poetry. Quotations checked against the 1925 text, with poems from the AQA anthology to pair with it.
PreviewA two-page organiser for each part of your revision.
PreviewHow to write the Section C comparison, step by step.
PreviewWhich anthology poems pair best with Gatsby, theme by theme.
The organisers and the exam pack together. Worth £11.98 bought separately.
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