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What does AQA English Literature consist of?
You will study one from a choice of 12 set texts, which include post-1914 prose fiction and drama. You should study the whole text. You will study one cluster of poems taken from the AQA poetry anthology, Poems Past and Present. There is a choice of two clusters, each containing 15 poems.

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1. 'feet'

earliest form of poem introduced in the 14th century by the poet Francesco Petrach, however it is often thought he didn’t actually invent the form. uses EIGHT LINES (octet) as the first stanza, with the rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA , then SIX LINES (sestet) , which can follow multiple rhyming patterns with the most common CDECDE and CDCCDC. usually used to present an argument or commentary, so normally there's a volta (shift in tone) occuring after the eighth line.They were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.Relief derived from releasing repressed emotionunits of sets of stressed and unstressed syllables

2. catharsis

3. Unmarried women were almost ostracised from society.

4. Italian / Petrarchan

earliest form of poem introduced in the 14th century by the poet Francesco Petrach, however it is often thought he didn’t actually invent the form. uses EIGHT LINES (octet) as the first stanza, with the rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA , then SIX LINES (sestet) , which can follow multiple rhyming patterns with the most common CDECDE and CDCCDC. usually used to present an argument or commentary, so normally there's a volta (shift in tone) occuring after the eighth line.Relief derived from releasing repressed emotionunits of sets of stressed and unstressed syllablesThey were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.

5. new money

6. infidelity

7. Epic

Relief derived from releasing repressed emotiona long narrative poem, within which a ‘hero’ completes a journey or acts in an event with historical, or mythical, significance. Examples include Beowulf and Paradise Lost .They were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.units of sets of stressed and unstressed syllables

8. First sentence

units of sets of stressed and unstressed syllablesIntroduces the topic of the essay as stated in the question 'Class conflict is a topic that is raised frequently by J.B Priestley in An Inspector calls.'They were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.Relief derived from releasing repressed emotion

9. jealousies

10. Define 'allusion'

An indirect reference to a concept or theme without explicit mentionThey were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.Relief derived from releasing repressed emotionunits of sets of stressed and unstressed syllables

11. One of Priestley's most outspoken speeches

They were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.“We are floundering between two stools. One of them is our old acquaintance labelled ‘Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost’, which can’t really represent us, or why should young men, for whom you and I have done little or nothing, tear up and down the sky in their Spitfires to protect us, or why should our whole community pledge itself to fight until Europe is freed? The other stool … has some lettering round it that hints that free men could combine, without losing what’s essential to their free development, to see that each gives according to his ability, and receives according to his need.”units of sets of stressed and unstressed syllablesRelief derived from releasing repressed emotion

12. Undivulged pretence

Hidden purposesRelief derived from releasing repressed emotionThey were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.units of sets of stressed and unstressed syllables

13. Gave thee the lie

Relief derived from releasing repressed emotionThey were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.units of sets of stressed and unstressed syllablesKnocked you out

14. fast

Relief derived from releasing repressed emotionunits of sets of stressed and unstressed syllablesfirmly tightlyThey were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.

15. stereotype

A view or preconception of a person or thing that is fixed and oversimplified, held by most of a populationunits of sets of stressed and unstressed syllablesThey were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.Relief derived from releasing repressed emotion

16. olfactory imagery

17. Define 'juxtaposition'

18. conscience

Relief derived from releasing repressed emotionunits of sets of stressed and unstressed syllablesA moral sense of right and wrong that guides your behaviour.They were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.

19. here-approach

units of sets of stressed and unstressed syllablesRelief derived from releasing repressed emotionarrival hereThey were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.

20. euphemism

Relief derived from releasing repressed emotionThey were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.Replacement of a crude or offensive expression with a vague or mild oneunits of sets of stressed and unstressed syllables

21. Social mobility in 1912

nearly non-existent The lower classes couldn’t get jobs that paid well because they weren’t educated or ‘skilled’ enough. Furthermore, many employers wouldn’t hire working class people for the ‘grander’ or better jobs. Working in industry was thought by the upper classes to be suited to the lower classes because it matched their ‘dirtiness’, and was a good way to keep them out of view.They were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.Relief derived from releasing repressed emotionunits of sets of stressed and unstressed syllables

22. Birlings

are a manufacturing money, an example of ‘new money’units of sets of stressed and unstressed syllablesRelief derived from releasing repressed emotionThey were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.

23. Define 'satire'

Using irony, exaggeration, humour, or ridicule to criticise someone's stupidity or cruel behaviour, particularly in a political contextunits of sets of stressed and unstressed syllablesRelief derived from releasing repressed emotionThey were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.

24. fear of the poor

25. misogyny

Relief derived from releasing repressed emotionunits of sets of stressed and unstressed syllablesThey were vulnerable and often lived in total poverty. If an unmarried, working class woman became pregnant, like Eva did, she didn’t have many options available to her. Many risked backstreet abortions rather than facing the stigma of having a child out of marriage. Many working class women were forced into prostitution - ‘onto the streets’ - if they became unemployed, because there was no other choice.Hatred, contempt, or prejudice towards women for no reason other than their gender.

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