Writer's Style

Setting
(atmosphere)
Dialogue
(colloquial)
Description
(people/
places)
Viewpoint
Imagery
Symbolism
Context
1930s America
Wall St Crash
Dustbowl
The American
Dream
Racism
Role of Women
Themes
Friendship
Loneliness/isolatio
n
Prejudice/Injustice
Dreams
Fate/Destiny
The working man

An
Inspector
Calls
Themes
Responsibility
Social Class
Young and Old
Men and Women
Writer's Style
The set and
staging
Creation of
tension
Entrances and
exits
Beginnings and
end of each Act
Context
Britain in 1912
and 1945
Family Life
Social class

Q1
A written
response to a
text.
45 minutes
5 paragraphs: one
paragraph for each
bullet point and an
introduction and
short conclusion.
Aim to use at least
4-5 details from the
text in response to
each bullet point.
Develop these
details with
opinions and
reflections.
Write in the correct
form remember
your purpose and
audience.
Q2
Language
30 minutes
8 words / phrases
chosen
Copy these out
exactly as they
appear in the text
Offer the definition
of the word
2-3 connotations /
inferences / effect

Conflict
poetry
1. Flag
2. At the Border,
1979
3. Belfast
Confetti
4. Bayonet
Charge
5. Come on,
come back
6. Hawk
Roosting
7. Futility
8. The Right
Word
9. Out of the
Blue
10. The Charge of
the Light
Brigade
11. Mametz Wood
12. The Yellow
Palm
13. Poppies

Plot
Section 1:
Introduction to G + L
and their dream
Section 2: G+L
arrive at the barn +
we are introduced to
the other characters
Section 3: Candy
wants to join in on the
dream. Curley fights
Lennie.
Section 4: Crooks
and Lennie talk.
Curleys wife attacks
Crooks.
Section 5: Lennie
kills Curleys wife.
The men hunt for
Lennie.
Section 6: George
shoots Lennie.

Characters
George
Lennie
Candy (cripple)
Crooks
Carlson
Slim
Curley
Curley's wife
Setting
Salinas River
The bunk House
The barn
Crook's room

An
Inspector
Calls
Plot:
Act 1: Celebration
of Sheila and
Geralds
engagement.
Birlings speeches.
Inspector arrives.
Birling and Sheila
are interrogated.
The affair is
revealed.
Act 2: Gerald is
interrogated and
Sheila calls off the
engagement. Mrs
Birling is
interrogated.
Act 3: Eric is the
father. Gerald
returns and the
Inspector leaves.
The Birlings think
they are in the clear.
The phone rings.
Setting
The Birlings dining
room
Characters
Arthur Birling
Sybil Birling
Sheila Birling
Eric Birling
Gerald Croft
The Inspector
Eva Smith /

Q3
Summary
45 minutes
Make sure you
list 15 points.
Copy these
points exactly as
they appear in
the text
Do not repeat
the same points
Look at what the
summary asks
you to
summarise.
Highlight
answers from
your list for part
(a) of the
summary and
part (b) of the
summary in two
different colours
Group points
rather than list
them.
If you are
running out of
time, literally
copy your list
into paragraph
form.

Conflict
War and effects of
Patriotism
Nature
Prejudice
Terrorism
Language
Alliteration,
assonance, simile,
metaphor,
personification,
adjectives, verbs,
nouns, adverbs,
rhetorical questions
Structure
Stanza, rhyme,
rhythm,
enjambment,
punctuation (.,?!:;)
Comparison
connectives
Similarly
Likewise
In the same way
Equally
Contrastive
connectives
However
Whereas
Although
On the other hand