AQA exam-style questions: Love and Relationships poetry cluster

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Cerys Slatter
AQA exam-style questions: Love and Relationships poetry cluster
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Designed to provide help with exam preparation for AQA GCSE English Literature students, this revision guide includes a set of 14 thematic exam-style questions on the 'Love and Relationships' section of the poetry anthology, with suggestions for poems students could choose for comparison. 

These exam questions also give students the opportunity to match poems to questions while revising key themes, and to begin to plan exam responses under time conditions.

The resource also includes a set of quick revision activities to develop their exam skills. 

Example exam questions include: 

Compare the ways poets present ideas about nature in ‘Winter Swans’ and one other poem from ‘Love and Relationships’.

Discuss the presentation of love between family members in ‘Climbing My Grandfather’ and one other poem from ‘Love and Relationships’.

Compare the ways poets represent ideas about romantic love in ‘Singh Song!’ and one other poem from ‘Love and Relationships’.

An extract from the revision guide:

‘Walking Away’

Compare the ways poets present family relationships in ‘Walking Away’ and one other poem from ‘Love and Relationships’.

  • ‘Eden Rock’
  • ‘Follower’
  • ‘Mother, Any Distance’
  • ‘Before You Were Mine’
  • ‘Climbing My Grandfather’

‘Letters From Yorkshire’

Compare the ways poets present strong bonds in ‘Letters From Yorkshire’ and one other poem from ‘Love and Relationships’.

  • ‘Walking Away’
  • ‘Follower’
  • ‘Mother, Any Distance’
  • ‘Eden Rock’
  • ‘Before You Were Mine’
  • ‘Climbing My Grandfather’

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