Component 3: Unseen Texts - Section A: Unseen prose — Eduqas A-Level English Literature
Component 3: Unseen Texts - Section A: Unseen prose explained
Component 3: Unseen Texts - Section A: Unseen prose covers 9 specification points, including Section A requires candidates to respond to… and Each question will offer an unseen prose….
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- Section A requires candidates to respond to one question from a choice of two.
- Each question will offer an unseen prose passage for analysis.
- Question 1 will take a prose passage from the period 1880-1910.
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- Question 2 will take a prose passage from the period 1918-1939.
- In their analysis of the unseen prose passage, candidates must focus their response on how meanings are shaped.
- In addition, they must give some consideration to relevant contexts and how texts may be read in more than one way.
- A set of brief supporting contextual and critical extracts will accompany each prose passage to help candidates consider the significance and influence of contexts and other readers' views.
- In preparation for this section, learners should be given the opportunity to read a wide range of prose from the defined periods above.
- Learners will need to show an understanding of the ways a variety of contexts can influence texts and also how texts may be read in more than one way.