GCSE Revision

English Literature

AQA GCSE English Literature: An Inspector Calls, Macbeth, Jekyll and Hyde, and Power and Conflict poetry.

Your poetry cluster

You study one cluster of the AQA anthology. Ask your teacher if you're not sure.

Quotation bank: key quotations by text and theme

Terminology: every key term, with pictures

Exam guide: the papers, marks, timings and levels

Topics

LT1

An Inspector Calls

Paper 2, Section A: J.B. Priestley's play about a mysterious inspector who shows a wealthy family how they each helped to destroy a young woman's life.

LT2

Macbeth

Paper 1, Section A: Shakespeare's tragedy of a brave soldier who murders his way to the throne, and what his ambition costs him.

LT3

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Paper 1, Section B: Robert Louis Stevenson's Gothic novella about a respected doctor and the violent man hidden inside him.

LT4

Power and Conflict poetry

Paper 2, Section B: the fifteen anthology poems about war, nature, power and identity, and how to compare two of them.

LT4

Love and Relationships poetry

Paper 2, Section B: the fifteen anthology poems about romantic love, family and loss, and how to compare two of them.

LT5

Unseen poetry

Paper 2, Section C: how to read, write about and compare poems you have never seen before.