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AQA English Literature Past Papers
The texts
Shakespeare
Macbeth Romeo and Juliet The Tempest The Merchant of Venice Much Ado About Nothing Julius Caesar
The Nineteenth Century Novel
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde    Robert Louis Stevenson A Christmas Carol    Charles Dickens Great Expectations    Charles Dickens Jane Eyre    Charlotte Brontë Frankenstein    Mary Shelley Pride and Prejudice    Jane Austen The Sign of Four    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Modern Prose and Drama
An Inspector Calls    J. B. Priestley Blood Brothers    Willy Russell The History Boys   Alan Bennett DNA    Dennis Kelly The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time    Simon Stephens A Taste of Honey    Shelagh Delaney Lord of the Flies    William Golding Telling Tales    AQA Anthology Animal Farm    George Orwell Never Let Me Go    Kazuo Ishiguro Anita and Me    Meera Syal Pigeon English    Stephen Kelman
Poetry
Love and Relationships
Power and Conflict
Worlds and Lives
When We Two Parted Lord Byron Love's Philosophy Percy Shelley Porphyria's Lover Robert Browning Sonnet 29 ("I think of thee!") Elizabeth Barrett Browning Neutral Tones Thomas Hardy Letters from Yorkshire Maura Dooley The Farmer's Bride Charlotte Mew Walking Away Cecil Day-Lewis Eden Rock Charles Causley Follower Seamus Heaney Mother, any distance Simon Armitage Before You Were Mine Carol Ann Duffy Winter Swans Owen Sheers Singh song! Daljit Nagra Climbing My Grandfather Andrew Whitehouse
Ozymandias Percy Shelley London William Blake Extract from The Prelude (1850) William Wordsworth My Last Duchess Robert Browning The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson Exposure Wilfred Owen Storm on the Island Seamus Heaney Bayonet Charge Ted Hughes Remains Simon Armitage Poppies Jane Weir War Photographer Carol Ann Duffy Tissue Imtiaz Dharker The Emigrée Carole Rumens Checking Out Me History John Agard Kamikaze Beatrice Garland
Lines Written in Early Spring William Wordsworth England in 1819 Percy Shelley Shall earth no more inspire thee Emily Brontë In a London Drawing-room George Eliot On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955 James Berry Name Journeys Raman Mundair pot Shamshad Khan A Wider View Seni Seneviratne Homing Liz Berry A Century Later Imtiaz Dharker The Jewellery Maker Louisa Adjoa Parker With Birds You’re Never Lonely Raymond Antrobus A Portable Paradise Roger Robinson Like an Heiress Grace Nichols Thirteen Caleb Femi
Specimens for new specifications (2014)
8702/1 Paper 1 Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel
Specimen 2014
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8702/1 Paper 2 Modern texts and poetry
Specimen 2014
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June 2017
8702/1 Paper 1 Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel
June 2017
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8702/1 Paper 2 Modern texts and poetry
June 2017
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June 2018
8702/1 Paper 1 Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel
June 2018
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8702/1 Paper 2 Modern texts and poetry
June 2018
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