1. Section B: How to Address AO3
• The invitation to address meanings and
interpretations is clearly set up in the questions
• It is often signalled by the word ‘significance’
• This word is also often used in Section A, the even numbered
questions (for example: What significance can you find in the
title Digging to America?)
• Significance is about what is signified, about what
meanings arise
• Here it is how readers find meanings in the aspect of
narrative that is the focus of the question

2. In the case of the Section B questions, the word ‘significance’
directly relates to the aspect of narrative that has been
identified in the question. You do not need to argue if that aspect of
narrative is important – it is, it is in the question.
What you are being asked to do is identify
important/interesting ways that this aspect of narrative
is used in the story (language, form, structure – AO2) and then
explore the ways that these are interpreted (AO3).
Therefore, you are exploring how and why that aspect of
narrative is significant.
You must use textual support in your answer (quotations and
references).

3. Choices for Section B question
Writers draw upon the conventions of different genres when constructing
their narratives: for example, ballads, monologues, elegies, fictive
biographies, thrillers, romances.
Write about the significance of generic conventions in the narratives of
the three writers you have studied.
Many narratives have one or more significant moments of crisis.
Write about the significance of crises in the narratives of the three writers
you have studied.

4. Form:
resulting
overall style
Structure: how the
text has been put
together
Language: words; images
sentence structures;
punctuation; stage directions
Brainstorm key points
(relating to the aspect of
narrative in the question)
about language, form and
structure (AO2) for the three
texts you will answer
on, consider their
interpretations (AO3)
How are these
interpreted? (AO3)

5. 1 hour – section B – critical language, interpretations, language,
form, structure, - check each text, make sure it reads well.
20 minutes – text 2: how is the aspect of narrative used
to tell the story?
20 minutes – text 1: how is the aspect of narrative used
to tell the story?
20 minutes – text 3: how is the aspect of narrative used
to tell the story?
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Writers draw upon the conventions of different genres when constructing their narratives:
for example, ballads, monologues, elegies, fictive biographies, thrillers, romances.
Write about the significance of generic conventions in the narratives of the three writers
you have studied.
Many narratives have one or more significant moments of crisis.
Write about the significance of crises in the narratives of the three writers you have studied.