GCSE Grades 9-1 Study Guides: Love and Relationships AQA Poetry Anthology by Richard Durant (author) and Cindy Torn (author) (UK edition)

Board: AQA

Examination: English Language & Literature

Specification: GCSE 9-1
Set Text covered:
Love and Relationships AQA Poetry Anthology

Type: Set Text Study Guide

As you know, poetry is worth nearly 40% of your entire English
Literature AQA mark (19% anthology / 20% unseen)

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This Poetry Anthology study guide examines each anthology poem
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Books in this series cover the following:

Paper
1 Section A – Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth)

Paper 1 Section B – Nineteenth-century novel (The Sign of
Four, A Christmas Carol, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde)

Paper 2 Section A – Modern texts (Blood Brothers, An
Inspector Calls)

Paper 2 Sections B and C – Poetry (Love and Relationships
anthology, Power and Conflict anthology and Unseen)

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