1. Write about the ways Browning tells the story of “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” in Section VII (7) of the poem. (21 marks)

2. Which AO am I being assessed on? AO2 Demonstrate detailed critical understanding in analysing the ways in which structure, form, and language shape meanings in literary texts. In other words, AO2 is assessing your understanding, and your ability to explore and analyze, form, structure, & language.

3. Happy with the difference between these? Form: Here, you are discussing the elements that make the text a novel, play, poem, etc.; or, if a poem, the elements that make it a sonnet, a ballad etc. Structure: The ways in which sections of a text (chapters, stanzas, verses…) are linked, and how they work together to shape our understanding of the text. Language: Word-level and phrase-level analysis. ** Wherever possible, and whenever appropriate, you should use technical vocabulary; this suggests to the examiners that we are specialists in our subject, and that we can talk the talk with other specialists. However, feature spotting is not enough; there needs to be a “so what,” a link to how these features affect our reading/understanding of the text.

4. Banding criteria for AO2 Band 3 (some) Consideration of some features of form, structure, language, & consideration of how these features shape meanings Band 4 (specific) Consideration of how specific aspects of form, structure, language shape meanings Band 5 (explore, evaluate) Exploration of several aspects of F, S, L, with evaluation of how they shape meanings Band 6 (explore, analyze; perceptive evaluation) exploration and analysis of key aspects of F,S,L, with perceptive evaluation of how they shape meanings

5. The banding margins for this question: B1: 0-3 B2: 4-6 B3: 7-9 B4: 10-13 B5: 14-17 B6: 18-21 Difference of 3 marks Difference of 4 marks

6. Poetic Feet Stressed:Unstressed: Prosody TWO SYLLABLES (Disyllabic feet) THREE SYLLABLES (Trisyllabic feet) Iamb (adj. iambic) ˘ˉ Anapaest (adj. anapaestic) ˘˘ˉ Trochee (adj. trochaic) ˉ˘ Dactyl (adj. dactylic) ˉ˘˘ ˘ˉ

7. The Building Blocks 1.Scenes & places 2.Time (temporality) & Sequence 3.Characterization 4.Voices in the story 5.Point of view (narrative perspective) First person: “I” voice Third person: He/She/They; often third-person omniscient narrator Second Person: “You” voice; rarer than First/Third person as sustained voice, but found wherever there is direct address to “you” from narrator, and a feature of love poetry (“How do I love thee, let me count the way”) 6.Destination: Or, “The Big ‘So What?’” What is the point of the narrative; what is it “about”? Note: Not “what happens?” (plot). Not, “Boy meets girl; girl kills boy; turns out boy was really a girl,” but “It’s about the difficulties of negotiating and coming to terms with one’s identity; the fact that identities are social constructions; the need for tolerance & celebration of others’ differences; the notion that true freedom comes only with death…”