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AQA AS/A Level English Literature

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Measure for Measure: Act 1 Scene 1
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Measure for Measure: Act 1 Scene 2
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Measure for Measure: Act 1 Scene 3
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Measure for Measure: Act 1 Scene 4
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Measure for Measure: Act 2 Scene 1
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Measure for Measure: Act 2 Scene 2
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Measure for Measure: Act 2 Scene 3
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Measure for Measure: Act 2 Scene 4
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Measure for Measure: Act 3 Scene 1
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Measure for Measure: Act 4 Scene 1
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Measure for Measure: Act 4 Scene 2
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Measure for Measure: Act 4 Scene 3
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Measure for Measure: Act 4 Scene 4
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Measure for Measure: Act 4 Scene 5
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Measure for Measure: Act 4 Scene 6
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Measure for Measure: Act 5 Scene 1
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Measure for Measure: Gender
Creationmarprofiting,
Lucio punk
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Measure for Measure: The Duke
Special soul absence,
Scope soul,
Loves the people
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Measure for Measure: Angelo
Test metal,
Drowsy neglected act,
Blood
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Measure for Measure: Escalus
Sin and falling
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Measure for Measure: Claudio
Too much liberty thirsty evil,
True contract,
Cold obstruction
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Measure for Measure: Lucio
Embraced,
Power,
Extirp
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Measure for Measure: Abhorson
Abhorson s reaction to provost su...,
What does abhorson call his occup...,
What does provost say to do with ...
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Measure for Measure: Barnardine
What does provost say about barna...,
What is barnardine in prison for,
How long has he been in prison for
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Measure for Measure: Isabella
Speechless dialect,
Strict restraint,
Enskied and sainted
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Measure for Measure: Mariana
Unjust kindness,
Swallowed vows,
Pre contract
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Measure for Measure: Julietta
Mutually committed,
Her talking about her child
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Measure for Measure: Mistress Overdone
Commonwealth
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Great Gatsby: Chapter 1
Summary
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Great Gatsby: Chapter 2
Summary
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Great Gatsby: Chapter 3
Summary
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Great Gatsby: Chapter 4
Summary
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Great Gatsby: Chapter 5
Summary
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Great Gatsby: Chapter 6
Summary
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Great Gatsby: Chapter 7
Summary
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Great Gatsby: Chapter 8
Summary
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Great Gatsby: Chapter 9
Summary
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The Literature of Love: Literary Archetypes
Femme fatale,
Cuckold,
Tragic hero
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The Literature of Love: Themes and Typicality
Forbidden love,
Betrayal,
Young love
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The Literature of Love: Understanding key contextual differences between 19thC writing and 20thC writing
Liberalisation of attitudes,
Fragmentation of conventional fam...,
Growth of interest in psychoanaly...
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Measure for Measure: Basic Historical Context
Views on women,
Views on marriage,
Different variations of the play
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The Literature of Love Context: The Bible
The garden of eden and the fall o...,
Presentation of women as bringers...,
Cain and abel
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The Literature of Love Context: Early Texts - Ideas about Love
Plato himself,
Aristophanic love,
Key ideas about aristophanic love
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The Literature of Love Context: Courtly Love - 12th + 13th C (Middle Ages)
Courtly love was a medieval europ...,
Courtly love traditions were sati...,
The stages of love according to c...
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The Literature of Love Context: The Renaissance
What was the renaissance,
Key features of the renaissance p...,
Women in the renaissance
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The Literature of Love Context: Romantic Literature
Basic idea,
The 5 i s that characterise roman...,
Imagination
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The Literature of Love Context: Victorian Literature
Queen victoria,
Separate spheres,
When was the victorian period
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The Literature of Love Context: Modernism 1910-1965
Key features
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The Literature of Love Context: Post-Modernism 1965+
Key points
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The Literature of Love Context: Key Contextual changes in the 20th C
Two world wars,
Urbanisation,
Karl marx and marxism
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The Literature of Love: Dates of Literary Periods
Courtly love,
Renaissance,
Romantic literature
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Great Gatsby: Short-term/hollow Relationships
Abortive sorrows,
Casual innuendo,
Swell dissolve and form
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Great Gatsby: Oppression of Women
Anchored balloons,
Synecdoche for tom and daisy,
What daisy says about her daughter
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Great Gatsby: Attraction and Desire
Daisy s voice,
Daisy s voice and comparing it to...,
Nick pulling jordan closer
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Great Gatsby: Damaged Relationships
Following the phone call from myr...,
Valley of ashes description,
Wilson ghost quote
6  cards
Great Gatsby: Boundaries within Society and Communication Problems
Dark water,
Valley of ashes,
Describing the people at the party
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Great Gatbsy: Class and Status
Myrtle describing how she made a ...,
Incomparable milk of wonder,
Description of tom and daisy foll...
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Great Gatsby: Love of Objects or Things
Advertisement over his head,
Daisy beautiful shirts,
Daisy s laugh
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Great Gatsby: Isolation and Unrequited Love
Dark water,
Gatsby emptiness and isolation,
Nick walking away from gatsby
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Great Gatsby: Love and Loss of Dreams
Foul dust,
Dark water,
Daisy and the letter
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Great Gatsby: Futility of Love
Nick when he realises why gatsby ...,
Left standing in the moonlight,
Ending para
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Great Gatsby: Women being Idealised and Idolised
Nick describing daisy,
Astounding presence,
Incomparable milk of wonder
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Great Gatsby: Comic Portrayals of Love
Pale as death,
Overwound clock,
Astounding presence
3  cards
Great Gatsby: Ideals vs Reality
Overwound clock,
Enchanted objects,
Colossal vitality of his illusion
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Great Gatsby: Women as Femme Fatales
Daisy s voice,
Dan cody,
Carelessness
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Great Gatsby: Love vs Time
Overwound clock,
Can t repeat the past,
Formidable stroke of 30
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Great Gatsby: Narcissism
Some idea of himself,
Ravenously and unscrupulously
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Great Gatsby: Suffering and Entrapment
Dark water,
Perishable breath,
Gatsby s reaction to tom and dais...
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Great Gatsby: Quotations linking to American History
New world,
Ashen fantastic figures,
God sees everything
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Great Gatsby: Devotion
Dark water,
Daisy and the letter,
Grail
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Great Gatsby: Convention and Repression
Plagiaristic and marred,
Nick s break up with jordan
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Great Gatsby: Love as an Uplifting and Empowering Force
Incomparable milk of wonder,
Radiated
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WH: Isolation, Separation and Lost Love
Nightmare,
Uncontrollable passion of tears,
Too fond
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WH: Suffering
Branded in my memory,
Sudden paroxysm of ungovernable p...,
Savage beast
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WH: Forbidden Love and Society's Disapproval
Mortal transgressions,
Edgar arrested her,
Edgar ordering catherine
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WH: Love as a form of Rebellion
Punishment laugh,
Naughty plan
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WH: Outsiders
Usurper,
Beggarly interloper,
Great glass pains
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WH: Narcissism
Kindling a spark of spirit,
He s in my soul,
Mad dog
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WH: False Idols
Double fault,
Isabella s idealistic view of hea...,
He s in my soul
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WH: Caring, Nurturing Love
The lintons treatment of cathy
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WH: Passion
Catherine breathless and wild,
Undistinguished delight,
Monopolised
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WH: Obsession
Heathcliff wanting to dig up cath...,
Has devoured my existence
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WH: Dreams and Delusions
Cathy after her reunion with heat...,
Cathy warning isabella about heat...,
Heathcliff about isabella
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WH: Love, Freedom, Adventure and Opportunity
Hareton showing catherine around ...,
Cathy breathless and wild
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WH: Compromise, Balance and Resolution
When lockwood returns to the heights,
Hareton and catherine
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WH: Inner Conflict
Nelly describing the differing ap...,
Cathy pinching cathy,
Cathy s naughty spirit
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WH: Doomed Love and Destruction
Edgar after fighting with cathy,
Cathy s marriage before heathclif...,
Cathy warning isabella about heat...
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WH: Rejecting Convention, Rejecting Clichés and Non-conformity within Love
Cathy describing her feelings for...,
Cathy s symbolic dream,
Heathcliff heaven vs hell
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WH: Marriage
Apathetic being,
Cathy madness,
An exile
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WH: Gender Roles
Cathy after the fight with edgar,
Edgar arrested her,
Shattered prison
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WH: Time
Calendar quote,
Cathy s description of her feelin...,
Heathcliff talking about cathy ha...
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WH: Social Class
Heathcliff s description of tg,
Great glass panes,
Nelly describing cathy returning ...
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WH: Power
Nelly,
I wish i could hold you,
Hareton to catherine
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