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Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE
Wednesday 4 June 2025
reference 9EL0/
English Language and Literature
Total Marks
Instructions
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centre number and candidate number.
Answer one question in Section A on your chosen theme and one question
in Section B on your chosen texts. You must choose the same theme in
both sections.
Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
In your answers to Section B, you must not use texts that you have studied
for coursework.
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EDEXCEL A LEVEL ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (9EL0/02)
QUESTION PAPER 2 AND MARK SCHEME SUMMER 2025
You must have:
Prescribed texts (clean copies)
Source Booklet (enclosed)
Afternoon (Time: 2 hours 30 minutes) Paper
Advanced
PAPER 2: Varieties in Language and Literature
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SECTION B Prose Fiction and other Genres Answer ONE question on your chosen theme. Theme: Society and the Individual Answer this question with reference to the TWO texts that you have studied from the list below. Begin your answer on page 15. Anchor texts The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Other texts The Bone People, Keri Hulme Othello, William Shakespeare A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer The Whitsun Weddings, Philip Larkin 5 Evaluate the effectiveness of the methods used by the writers of your two studied texts to present individuals who either conform to, or defy, their society’s expectations of them. In your answer you must consider the use of linguistic and literary features, connections across texts and relevant contextual factors. (Total for Question 5 = 30 marks) ■■■■ 11 Turn over DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA
Theme: Encounters Answer this question with reference to the TWO texts that you have studied from the list below. Begin your answer on page 15. Anchor texts A Room with a View , E M Forster Wuthering Heights , Emily Brontë Other texts The Bloody Chamber , Angela Carter Hamlet , William Shakespeare Rock ‘N’ Roll , Tom Stoppard The Waste Land and Other Poems , T S Eliot The New Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry , editor J Wordsworth 7 Evaluate the effectiveness of the methods used by the writers of your two studied texts to present the surprise or shock felt during an unanticipated encounter. In your answer you must consider the use of linguistic and literary features, connections across texts and relevant contextual factors. (Total for Question 7 = 30 marks) ■■■■ 13 Turn over DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA
Theme: Crossing Boundaries Answer this question with reference to the TWO texts that you have studied from the list below. Begin your answer on page 15. Anchor texts Wide Sargasso Sea , Jean Rhys Dracula , Bram Stoker Other texts The Lowland , Jhumpa Lahiri Twelfth Night , William Shakespeare Oleanna , David Mamet Goblin Market , The Prince’s Progress , and Other Poems , Christina Rossetti North , Seamus Heaney 8 Evaluate the effectiveness of the methods used by the writers of your two studied texts to present individuals who are strongly affected, physically and/or emotionally, by the crossing of a boundary. In your answer you must consider the use of linguistic and literary features, connections across texts and relevant contextual factors. (Total for Question 8 = 30 marks) 14 ■■■■ DO (^) NOT (^) WRITE (^) IN (^) THIS (^) AREA DO (^) NOT (^) WRITE (^) IN (^) THIS (^) AREA DO (^) NOT (^) WRITE (^) IN (^) THIS (^) AREA
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