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AQA A-Level English Literature A

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Flashcards for AQA A-level English Literature A (7712), split into Love through the ages, WW1 and its aftermath, and Modern times, with one subdeck for every set text and every poem in the two love poetry anthologies. Each text covers quotations, characters, themes, plot and context. A last subdeck covers literary terms. Delete or suspend the texts and option you don't study once the deck is yours.

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  • Literary terms and techniques220 cards
    • Approaches to reading14 cards
    • Poetic form and structure56 cards
    • Prose, drama and genre66 cards
    • Sound and figures of speech84 cards
  • Paper 1 Love through the ages1092 cards
    • A Room with a View (Forster)39 cards
      • Characters10 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Plot and structure15 cards
      • Themes9 cards
    • Anthology of Love Poetry through the Ages: Post-1900 (AQA)128 cards
      • À quoi bon dire (Mew)8 cards
      • After the Lunch (Cope)8 cards
      • For My Lover, Returning to His Wife (Sexton)9 cards
      • I, being born a woman and distressed (Millay)9 cards
      • Long Finish (Muldoon)9 cards
      • Love and a Question (Frost)9 cards
      • Meeting Point (MacNeice)9 cards
      • One Flesh (Jennings)9 cards
      • Punishment (Heaney)8 cards
      • Talking in Bed (Larkin)8 cards
      • The Love Poem (Duffy)9 cards
      • Timer (Harrison)8 cards
      • To John Donne (Symmons Roberts)8 cards
      • Vergissmeinnicht (Douglas)9 cards
      • Wild Oats (Larkin)8 cards
    • Anthology of Love Poetry through the Ages: Pre-1900 (AQA)135 cards
      • A Song, Absent from thee (Rochester)9 cards
      • At an Inn (Hardy)8 cards
      • La Belle Dame sans Merci (Keats)11 cards
      • Non sum qualis eram (Dowson)10 cards
      • Remember (Rossetti)9 cards
      • She Walks in Beauty (Byron)10 cards
      • Song, Ae fond kiss (Burns)9 cards
      • Sonnet 116 (Shakespeare)10 cards
      • The Flea (Donne)10 cards
      • The Garden of Love (Blake)10 cards
      • The Ruined Maid (Hardy)9 cards
      • The Scrutiny (Lovelace)10 cards
      • To His Coy Mistress (Marvell)10 cards
      • Who so list to hount (Wyatt)10 cards
    • Atonement (McEwan)43 cards
      • Characters9 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Key quotations3 cards
      • Plot and structure18 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)72 cards
      • Characters14 cards
      • Context10 cards
      • Key quotations10 cards
      • Plot and structure25 cards
      • Themes13 cards
    • Measure for Measure (Shakespeare)69 cards
      • Characters17 cards
      • Context12 cards
      • Key quotations16 cards
      • Plot and structure14 cards
      • Themes10 cards
    • Othello (Shakespeare)77 cards
      • Characters18 cards
      • Context10 cards
      • Key quotations21 cards
      • Plot and structure17 cards
      • Themes11 cards
    • Persuasion (Austen)74 cards
      • Characters20 cards
      • Context12 cards
      • Key quotations9 cards
      • Plot and structure21 cards
      • Themes12 cards
    • Rebecca (Du Maurier)44 cards
      • Characters10 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Key quotations3 cards
      • Plot and structure18 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardy)51 cards
      • Characters10 cards
      • Context6 cards
      • Key quotations6 cards
      • Plot and structure21 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • The Awakening (Chopin)50 cards
      • Characters10 cards
      • Context8 cards
      • Key quotations7 cards
      • Plot and structure14 cards
      • Themes11 cards
    • The Go-Between (Hartley)33 cards
      • Characters9 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Key quotations3 cards
      • Plot and structure9 cards
      • Themes7 cards
    • The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)58 cards
      • Characters15 cards
      • Context6 cards
      • Key quotations9 cards
      • Plot and structure16 cards
      • Themes12 cards
    • The Island of Missing Trees (Shafak)31 cards
      • Characters6 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Narration4 cards
      • Plot and structure8 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare)65 cards
      • Characters16 cards
      • Context13 cards
      • Key quotations15 cards
      • Plot and structure11 cards
      • Themes10 cards
    • The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare)63 cards
      • Characters15 cards
      • Context9 cards
      • Key quotations15 cards
      • Plot and structure14 cards
      • Themes10 cards
    • Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)60 cards
      • Characters16 cards
      • Context8 cards
      • Key quotations11 cards
      • Plot and structure17 cards
      • Themes8 cards
  • Paper 2A WW1 and its aftermath586 cards
    • A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway)30 cards
      • Characters7 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Key quotations3 cards
      • Plot and structure12 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • A Long, Long Way (Barry)25 cards
      • Characters6 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Plot and structure8 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)31 cards
      • Characters11 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Plot and structure11 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • Birdsong (Faulks)35 cards
      • Characters11 cards
      • Context6 cards
      • Plot and structure11 cards
      • Themes7 cards
    • Blackadder Goes Forth (Curtis and Elton)24 cards
      • Characters6 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Plot and structure8 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • Goodbye to All That (Graves)17 cards
      • Characters5 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Plot and structure4 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • Journey's End (Sherriff)39 cards
      • Characters10 cards
      • Context7 cards
      • Plot and structure13 cards
      • Themes9 cards
    • Life Class (Barker)19 cards
      • Characters5 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Plot and structure6 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • My Boy Jack (Haig)21 cards
      • Characters6 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Key quotations3 cards
      • Plot and structure4 cards
      • Themes4 cards
    • Oh, What a Lovely War (Littlewood)26 cards
      • Characters4 cards
      • Context6 cards
      • Plot and structure6 cards
      • Songs3 cards
      • Themes7 cards
    • Regeneration (Barker)42 cards
      • Characters13 cards
      • Context6 cards
      • Plot and structure12 cards
      • Themes11 cards
    • Scars Upon My Heart (ed. Reilly)31 cards
      • About the collection10 cards
      • Perhaps (Brittain)5 cards
      • Rouen (Cannan)5 cards
      • The Cenotaph (Mew)5 cards
      • Who's for the game? (Pope)6 cards
    • Strange Meeting (Hill)17 cards
      • Characters3 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Plot and structure6 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • The Accrington Pals (Whelan)24 cards
      • Characters7 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Plot and structure5 cards
      • Themes7 cards
    • The First Casualty (Elton)17 cards
      • Characters5 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Plot and structure4 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • The Oxford Book of War Poetry (ed. Stallworthy)13 cards
      • About the collection4 cards
      • Drummer Hodge (Hardy)4 cards
      • The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson)5 cards
    • The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (ed. Walter)21 cards
      • About the collection4 cards
      • As the Team's Head-Brass (Thomas)4 cards
      • For the Fallen (Binyon)5 cards
      • In Flanders Fields (McCrae)5 cards
      • To His Love (Gurney)3 cards
    • The Return of the Soldier (West)16 cards
      • Characters5 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Plot and structure3 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • The War Poems of Wilfred Owen (ed. Stallworthy)55 cards
      • About the collection7 cards
      • Anthem for Doomed Youth8 cards
      • Disabled6 cards
      • Dulce et Decorum Est8 cards
      • Exposure7 cards
      • Futility5 cards
      • Mental Cases4 cards
      • Strange Meeting6 cards
      • The Send-Off4 cards
    • The Wipers Times (Hislop and Newman)18 cards
      • Characters5 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Plot and structure4 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • Up the Line to Death (ed. Gardner)43 cards
      • About the collection9 cards
      • Base Details (Sassoon)6 cards
      • Break of Day in the Trenches (Rosenberg)6 cards
      • Glory of Women (Sassoon)4 cards
      • Suicide in the Trenches (Sassoon)5 cards
      • The Soldier (Brooke)7 cards
      • When you see millions of the mouthless dead (Sorley)6 cards
    • Wake (Hope)22 cards
      • Characters7 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Plot and structure5 cards
      • Themes6 cards
  • Paper 2B Modern times695 cards
    • A Streetcar Named Desire (Williams)48 cards
      • Characters11 cards
      • Context9 cards
      • Key quotations4 cards
      • Plot and structure16 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • All My Sons (Miller)29 cards
      • Characters8 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Plot and structure10 cards
      • Themes7 cards
    • Ariel (Plath)28 cards
      • About the collection5 cards
      • Daddy6 cards
      • Edge4 cards
      • Lady Lazarus5 cards
      • Morning Song4 cards
      • Tulips4 cards
    • Birthday Letters (Hughes)18 cards
      • About the collection13 cards
      • Some poems5 cards
    • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Williams)29 cards
      • Characters8 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Plot and structure9 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • Feminine Gospels (Duffy)54 cards
      • About the collection11 cards
      • Beautiful3 cards
      • History, Sub, The Virgin's Memo and Anon8 cards
      • Loud3 cards
      • Tall3 cards
      • The Diet3 cards
      • The Laughter of Stafford Girls' High, A Dreaming Week and White Writing5 cards
      • The Light Gatherer and The Cord3 cards
      • The Long Queen3 cards
      • The Map-Woman3 cards
      • The Woman Who Shopped3 cards
      • Wish, North-West and Death and the Moon3 cards
      • Work3 cards
    • Mr Loverman (Evaristo)21 cards
      • Characters6 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Plot and structure3 cards
      • Themes7 cards
    • New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (Heaney)24 cards
      • Blackberry-Picking4 cards
      • Death of a Naturalist5 cards
      • Digging6 cards
      • Mid-Term Break4 cards
      • The Tollund Man5 cards
    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey)35 cards
      • Characters14 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Plot and structure8 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson)33 cards
      • Characters10 cards
      • Context6 cards
      • Plot and structure9 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • Our Country's Good (Wertenbaker)27 cards
      • Characters11 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Plot and structure3 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • Revolutionary Road (Yates)27 cards
      • Characters7 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Plot and structure8 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • Selected Poems (Harrison)13 cards
      • About the collection13 cards
    • Skirrid Hill (Sheers)45 cards
      • About the collection13 cards
      • Border Country3 cards
      • Farther3 cards
      • Hedge School, Late Spring and Inheritance6 cards
      • Keyways, Night Windows and Valentine5 cards
      • Place and community8 cards
      • Skirrid Fawr3 cards
      • Y Gaer and The Hill Fort4 cards
    • Spies (Frayn)24 cards
      • Characters6 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Plot and structure8 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • The Color Purple (Walker)39 cards
      • Characters12 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Key quotations3 cards
      • Plot and structure12 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • The God of Small Things (Roy)32 cards
      • Characters9 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Key quotations3 cards
      • Plot and structure7 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)46 cards
      • Characters10 cards
      • Context6 cards
      • Key quotations4 cards
      • Plot and structure18 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • The Help (Stockett)24 cards
      • Characters7 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Plot and structure6 cards
      • Themes7 cards
    • Top Girls (Churchill)38 cards
      • Characters15 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Plot and structure12 cards
      • Themes7 cards
    • Translations (Friel)31 cards
      • Characters9 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Plot and structure8 cards
      • Themes9 cards
    • Waterland (Swift)30 cards
      • Characters8 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Plot and structure10 cards
      • Themes8 cards

Some of its cards

  • In A Long, Long Way, who is Willie Dunne?
    A young Dubliner of eighteen who joins the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in 1914 and fights in Flanders
  • Alliteration
    The repetition of the same consonant sound at the start of nearby words
  • Who edited The Oxford Book of War Poetry?
    Jon Stallworthy
  • In Atonement, what happens at the fountain?
    The vase breaks and Cecilia strips to her underwear to retrieve the pieces, in front of Robbie, and Briony misreads it
  • In Regeneration, why is Sassoon sent to Craiglockhart?
    He has written a declaration against the war, and the authorities call him shell-shocked instead of court-martialling him
  • What war is the subject of Hardy's "Drummer Hodge"?
    The Boer War
  • In Jane Eyre, how does the novel present class?
    Jane is a poor governess who insists she is Rochester's equal in mind and soul
  • What is the subject of Duffy's "The Woman Who Shopped"?
    A woman who tries to remake herself by buying things
  • First-person narrator
    A narrator who tells the story as "I", from a single viewpoint
  • In Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est", the soldiers are "[...], like old beggars under sacks."
    In Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est", the soldiers are "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks."

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