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What are the four assessment objectives in AQA GCSE English Literature?: AO1 read, understand and respond, with an informed personal response and textual references; AO2 analyse language, form and structure using terminology; AO3 the relationship between texts and their contexts; AO4 vocabulary, sentence structures, spelling and punctuation.
What is the difference between summary and interpretation?: Summary says what happens. Interpretation states a testable view of what it suggests, such as what a decision reveals about a character's values.
Why use tentative language such as "may suggest" or "could imply"?: Meanings can often be read more than one way, and offering a second possible reading is a mark of higher-level work.
Language, form and structure: what does each cover?: Language: word choice, imagery, sound, tone. Form: the type of text and its conventions (play, sonnet, novel). Structure: how it is organised, including order, shifts, openings and endings.
What does context mean in English Literature?: The circumstances that shaped a text or how it is read, such as its time and society, the writer's background and the audience. Use it only where it explains an idea in the text.

Where are AO4 accuracy marks awarded in AQA 8702?: On the Shakespeare question (Paper 1) and the modern-text question (Paper 2), 4 marks each, for vocabulary, sentence structures, spelling and punctuation.
How should quotations be used in a literature essay?: Short, precise and embedded in your own sentence, then explained: point, evidence, explanation. A quotation is not an explanation.
Which comparative words help a poetry comparison?: "Whereas", "in contrast", "similarly" and "both poets", used to compare ideas and methods throughout, not only subject matter.
Why must a closed-book quotation be recalled exactly?: There is no text to check against in the exam, and analysis of a specific word choice falls apart if the words are wrong. Learn a focused bank precisely.