by melaniewp | Feb 10, 2014 | Controlled Assessment, English Language, GCSE, Obama, Spoken Language, Winston Churchill
If you’re doing the spoken language controlled assessment, you might like to practice on this question about language and power. The two texts are: an Obama speech and Churchill’s speech, ‘We Will Fight them’.* *You’ll need to scroll to...
by melaniewp | Oct 21, 2013 | AQA GCSE English Literature, Controlled Assessment, Susan Hill, The Woman in Black
How does Hill create a sense of the inevitable?The sense of the inevitable increases our sympathy for Kipps as he is sucked into a tragedy where illogical, irrational hatred and evil falls upon him almost by chance. He is in no way responsible for what he suffers. As...
by melaniewp | Oct 12, 2013 | Controlled Assessment, Creative Writing, GCSE, IGCSE, Imagery, Metaphors, Similes
This is for anyone who is struggling with creative writing. Here are some examples using semantic fields, sensory language, metaphors and similes.Imagery means ‘word-pictures’. You’re painting a picture for the reader which should include a strong...
by melaniewp | Oct 7, 2013 | AQA, Controlled Assessment, English Literature, GCSE, Jennet Humfrye, Literature Analysis, Susan Hill, The Woman in Black
Most of the information about Jennet is revealed in the packet of letters that Arthur Kipps sorts through in the penultimate chapter (second to last), called ‘A Packet of Letters’.Of course, we meet her as ‘the woman in black’ throughout. But...
by melaniewp | Sep 22, 2013 | Controlled Assessment, English Literature Exam, GCSE, The Woman in Black
Isolation is a key theme in The Woman in Black. Arthur Kipps is emotionally isolated from his family’s happiness at the start of the novel, and is set apart from other men by his traumatic experiences. Later in the novel, he is physically isolated from...
by melaniewp | Sep 18, 2013 | AQA, Controlled Assessment, English Literature Exam, GCSE, The Gothic, The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black is a gothic novel by Susan Hill set in the Nineteenth Century. The novel was actually written in the 1980s, so it is historical fiction, where Hill plays with the conventions of gothic novels to build a tense and moody atmosphere. Find out what...
