Paper 2: Sample Paper – Sample 1

Instructions to candidates

- Answer one question only. You must base your answer on two of the works
you have studied.
- You are not permitted to bring copies of the works you have studied into the
examination room.
- The maximum number of marks for this examination paper is 30.

Answer one question only and compare and contrast these works in response
to the question.

1. Discuss the ways that writers have presented characters that feel alienated from
their society in two of the works you have studied.

2. “Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the upmost possible
degree.” Discuss some of the features that make the two works you have studied
great literature.

3. Tension frequently builds to a critical point in literary works. How is tension

created in two works you have studied and for what purpose?

4. To what extent do the form and content of two works you have studied reflect the
time and place in which they were written?

 
 
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