Language - 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.
Form - 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.
Structure - 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.
Structure - When used in writing: the construction of a relevant and supported argument appropriate to the question.
Genre - Exploring the characteristics of different text types: for example, tragedy, comedy and satire.
Style - Analysing the ways in which choices regarding form, structure and language interact to create a distinctive style, for different forms and genres.
Interpretation - At AS Level: Evaluating and explaining different ideas within a text.
Interpretation - 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.