Aspects of comedy: creating your own questions, Paper 1B, Section B

Below you will find instructions on how to use the accompanying resources to create your own exam practice questions. This example shows you how to use the Aspects of comedy: resource package to set questions for Paper 1B, Section B, for the Aspects of comedy component for A-level English Literature B.

Aspects of comedy: Paper 1B, Section B

If you have used the relevant questions from the specimen assessment materials or want to set a question on a different text combination or a different aspect of comedy, you can use these documents in the following way:

1. Look at how the relevant questions from the specimen assessment materials are constructed, for example:

'Comedies leave readers and audiences with a final sense of joy.'

To what extent do you agree with this view in relation to two texts you have studied?

Remember to include in your answer relevant comment on the ways the writers have shaped meanings.

The question wording (To what extent…have shaped meanings.) can remain unchanged. You will need, however, to construct a different 'view' depending upon the aspect of Comedy you want the students to explore.

2. Read the relevant Text Overview to help you construct a different 'view' to debate. Look for aspects of Comedy which occur in the texts but don't forget that the absence of aspects in a text is equally valid for debate. Other sources can be used to construct a view:

• look at the list of aspects of Comedy in the specification and make up a critical view around one of these
• take a view from one of the writers in the Critical Anthology around which to structure a debate
• research critical views about comedy writing on another comedy text and adapt the quote in a more general sense so that students can consider how far this can be said to be true of the texts they have studied.

This resource is part of the Aspects of comedy resource package.