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Route B: Poetry and non-exam assessment flashcards

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What should a profile of each studied poem include?: Situation, theme and attitude, form and structure, key language, any context needed, and links to other poems in the group.
How do you choose the second poem in a Route B comparison?: Pick the poem that best fits the question, not your favourite, and organise the comparison by an idea, explaining why the methods differ.
What does a strong paragraph on a poem contain?: A clear claim, brief evidence, analysis of the poet's method and an explanation of its effect on the reader.

What is a five-step approach to an unseen poem?: Read twice (sense, then detail); annotate repeated words, images and tone shifts; sum up what it is about in a sentence or two; choose three or four points on method; write in an organised way.
What are common unseen-poetry traps?: Hunting for a hidden meaning and ignoring the surface meaning, listing techniques without effects, spending all the time on the first stanza, and writing about what the poem is not.
How do you compare two unseen poems?: Plan around two or three shared ideas, such as the poets' attitudes to nature, and show how each uses language and structure differently.

What is the 9275 Route B non-exam assessment?: Written work on a whole prose text, completed in school over a period rather than under timed conditions, in place of Route A's unseen prose.
How should you plan NEA literature work?: Turn the task into a question, write a thesis and a sequence of points with evidence, and choose evidence from across the text to show development.
How should an NEA draft be revised?: Revise for argument first (does each paragraph support the thesis and explain effects?), then edit for accuracy, check quotations and keep within the word limit.
How should another reader's view be used in NEA work?: Put it in your own words and acknowledge where it came from, and use context only where you are sure of it and it explains a choice in the text.