English Literature AQA B - Openings

English Literature AQA B - Openings

1. Rossetti

   • Cousin Kate
     • Describes her past (contect)
       • Analepsis (Structure aspect of narrative)
       • Prolepsis and foreshadowing when the great lord is mentioned
     • Repetition of find me out
     • Clear that Rossetti is going to write a ballad because we know that she is about to tell us a story
     • Clear who sympathy should be aimed towards (the "flaxen""cottage maid")

2. Browning

   • Porphyria's lover
     • Pathetic fallacy
       • Wind and rain
     • "Heart fit to break"
       • Foreshadows death
     • informed on what the narrator is actually like.

3. The kite runner

   • Setting and Time change
     • America, kabul, Sanfrancisco
     • represents Amirs retrospective narrative as foreshadowing and proplepsis' are presented
   • Only other voice is "for you a thousand times over" which shows impact on Amir

4. The Great Gatsby

   • East Egg and West Egg
     • less fashionable
     • New money
     • Mansions
     • New money
   • Nicks past
     • Living in the west and moving
     • First line is about not judging people
   • Setting the scene (Setting of both places)
   • The 1st person narrative of nick
     • Unreliable (apparently not judgemental but judges Tom)
     • Wont give much away about himself
       • Shows that Nick isnt Fitzgeralds main focus.