Analysing the ways in which choices regarding form, structure and language interact to create a distinctive style, for different forms and genres.

At A Level: Evaluating and explaining different ideas within a text and using different critical readings to explore an understanding of texts and to help support literary arguments.

At AS Level: Evaluating and explaining different ideas within a text.

Considering the ways in which writers use – or depart from – conventions of literary forms of prose, poetry and drama and how those inform meaning and effects.

Exploring the characteristics of different text types: for example, tragedy, comedy and satire.

Exploring the relationship between a text and its historical, social and cultural backgrounds and the ways in which this can illuminate the reading of a text. In response to unseen texts, considering the ways in which a text’s meaning is shaped by co

Exploring the variety and use of language in literary texts. Identifying literary techniques and explaining how their use contributes to a reader’s analysis and understanding of the text.

When analysed in reading: the organisation of a text or passage, its shape and development and how this contributes to the readers’ understanding of its meaning and effects.

When used in writing: the construction of a relevant and supported argument appropriate to the question.