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Original teaching material. Check the course coverage gaps and your school’s current specification before using it for assessment. · ⁨Material de enseñanza original. Verifica los vacíos de cobertura del curso y la especificación actual de tu escuela antes de usarlo para evaluación.⁩

1 · Literary form and close reading

personification · ambiguity

U1-Q1 · 2 marks

What does the phrase most directly suggest?

Answer and reasoning · ⁨Respuesta y razonamiento⁩

Suspended movement and shared anticipation through personification.

U1-Q2 · 4 marks

Explain the mechanism or reasoning in this original case: The classroom line the room held its breath gives a room a human action. The phrase can create tension without literally describing breathing walls.

Answer and reasoning · ⁨Respuesta y razonamiento⁩

In the original classroom line, held its breath suspends ordinary movement and makes anticipation feel shared. Compare that interpretation with nearby details before claiming the phrase signals fear rather than excitement.

  • Accurate relevant concept (1)
  • Specific evidence from the case (1)
  • Connected reasoning (2)

The classroom line is original practice, not a quotation from a prescribed work. / Avoid an effect word such as vivid without explaining what is made vivid and why it matters.

2 · Comparative literary argument

literary form · retrospective narration

U2-Q1 · 2 marks

What is the best comparative focus?

Answer and reasoning · ⁨Respuesta y razonamiento⁩

How each work's arrangement of time shapes its treatment of memory.

U2-Q2 · 4 marks

Explain the mechanism or reasoning in this original case: A poem and a novel may both explore memory, but their forms create different experiences of time. A comparison should explain how form makes the shared concern distinct.

Answer and reasoning · ⁨Respuesta y razonamiento⁩

Build a paragraph about how time is arranged in each work: repetition may return a poem to one moment while retrospective narration revises an earlier event. Explain how this difference shapes the reader's understanding of memory.

  • Accurate relevant concept (1)
  • Specific evidence from the case (1)
  • Connected reasoning (2)

Do not imply every poem or novel works this way; verify the selected works. / Context should illuminate details rather than replace textual evidence with a history lesson.

3 · Global issue and works in translation

translation · global issue

U3-Q1 · 2 marks

Which pairing fits the English literature oral?

Answer and reasoning · ⁨Respuesta y razonamiento⁩

One work originally written in English and one studied in English translation.

U3-Q2 · 4 marks

Explain the mechanism or reasoning in this original case: A translated work can make a familiar issue appear through unfamiliar voices and conventions. Translation is part of the text's reception, not proof of a lesser work.

Answer and reasoning · ⁨Respuesta y razonamiento⁩

For a focused issue about exclusion through naming, compare the chosen extracts' labels, narrative positions and consequences. Record the translator and edition, and avoid unsupported claims about wording in an original language you cannot read.

  • Accurate relevant concept (1)
  • Specific evidence from the case (1)
  • Connected reasoning (2)

This literature oral does not pair a literary work with an advert. / School verifies text choices, reuse rules, extract length, notes and authenticity against the full guide.

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