What is the difference between story and plot? What is the difference between plot summary and plot interpretation? How do you analyze the relationship between the main plot and a subplot? What are the purposes of literary elements and literary techniques? What are the writer’s literary devices and reader’s literary devices? How do you recognize and appreciate ways in which writer use language, structure and style to achieve his intended effects on the reader? How do you shift from mere appreciation of a literary text to critical literary appreciation? How do you engage in literary analysis & what is the purpose? What is the difference between topic and theme and how do you arrive at the theme? How do you compare the theme and the moral message? How do you develop an interpretation of a work of literature (drama, poetry and prose) and what is the purpose? How do you present critical appreciations or your individual responses to literary texts composed in different forms and in different periods and cultures? How do you know your individual response is valid? What are the differences between Critical Literary Appreciation, Literary Criticism, and Literary Theory? Why should there be a Literary theory at all?
Essay-type interpretative questions with answers for the Pearson Edexcel IGCSE OL examination written in the PEEL format (Point, Evidence, Explanation, Link), calls for answers ranging between 300-500 words:Essay-type interpretative questions
Read moreInferential questions on Romeo and Juliet are specially composed to extend a helping hand to the students sitting for Edexcel OL English Literature in 2025/2026 by bunPeiris of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Content: Inferential questions from Act1 and 2 of Romeo and Juliet with a guide to composing answers in PEEL (Point, Evidence, Explanation, Link) format from Romeo and Juliet Acts 1 and 2.
Objective: to train students in answering inferential comprehension questions as part of the process of coaching them to compose interpretative responses for essay-type examination questions in Edexcel, OL English Literature 2025-2026
