All the Browning Questions ever (p.s. Practise Laboratory !!)

1. All the Browning Questions ever(p.s. PractiseLaboratory!!) All the Section B Questions Ever!!

2. Section A Questions Jan 2009 • Write about the ways Browning tells the story in lines 1-39 of FraLippo Lippi • “FraLippo Lippi is about the significance of art in civilised society.” How do you respond to this view of the poem? May 2009 • How does Browning tell the story in My Last Duchess? • “The disturbing behaviour of both the Duke of Ferrara and of Porphyria’s Lover make it impossible for readers to sympathise with them.” How far do you agree with this view? January 2010 • Write about the ways Browning tells the story in The Bishop Orders His Tomb. • How far do you agree that the characters in Browning’s poems display a disturbing lack of morality? May 2010 • Write about the ways Browning tells the story in The Patriot? • How far do you agree that the Patriot and the Pied Piper are heroes? January 2011 • Write about the ways Browning tells the story in Sections VII, VIII, IX, X and XI of the Pied Piper of Hamelin • How far would you agree that the most striking feature of Browning’s poems is the way the characters experience extreme changes in fortune?

3. Section A Questions Summer 2011 a) Write about how Browning tells the story in Porphyria’s Lover? b) How far would you agree with the view that in Browning’s poetry women are important only because they reveal the character of men? Jan 2012 • Write about the ways Browning tells the story in My Last Duchess. • To what extent do you think that in Browning’s poetry women are powerless? Summer 2012 0 3 Write about the ways Browning tells the story in lines 191 – 269 of ‘FraLippoLippi’. 0 4 How far do you agree with the view that FraLippoLippi is simply a “saucy and loud-mouthed monk”? January 2013 Write about the ways Browning tells the story in lines 1 – 145 of ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’. (21 marks) AND How far would you agree with the view that, although its subtitle is ‘A Child’s Story’, the poem is more of a political work? (21 marks ) (

4. Section B Questions Jan 2009 19. Writers often choose their titles carefully to allow for different potential meanings. Write about some potential meanings of titles in the three texts you have studied. 20. Write about the significance of one or two key events in each of the three texts you have studied. May 2009 19. Write about some of the ways characters are created in the three texts you have studied. 20. Write about the ways authors use time to shape the order of events in the three texts you have studied. Jan 2010 19. Many narratives have one or more significant moments of crisis. Write about the significance of crises in the work of the three writers you have studied. 20. How do writers use repetition to create meanings in their texts? In your answer, refer to the work of the three writers you have studied.

5. Section B: writing about the other 3 texts! May 2010 19. Write about the significance of the ways writers end their narratives in the work of the three writers you have studied? 20. Write about the significance of narrators in the work of the three writers you have studied? January 2011 19. Write about the significance of the ways the three writers have structured their narratives. 20. Write about the significance of the ways the three writers you have studied have used places in their narratives

6. Section B Summer 2011 • “In narratives, what we are not told is just as important as what we are told.” Write about the significance of the gaps or of the untold stories in the narratives of the three writers you have studied. • Write about the significance of descriptive language as it is used by each of the three writers you have studied. January 2012 • 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. • A key choice writers make is how they name or refer to characters in their stories. Write about the significance of the choices writers have made in naming or referring to their characters in the three texts you have studied. Summer 2012 3 7 Write about the significance of climaxes and /or anticlimaxes in the narratives of the three writers you have studied. OR 3 8 Write about the significance of the ways speech is used in the work of the three writers you have studied.

7. Summer 2012 EITHER 3 7 Write about the significance of climaxes and /or anticlimaxes in the narratives of the three writers you have studied. OR 3 8 Write about the significance of the ways speech is used in the work of the three writers you have studied.

8. January 2013 “In a narrative, there is usually a hero or heroine, a protagonist on whose fate the readers’ interest in the story principally rests.” Write about the significance of protagonists in the narratives of the three writers you have studied. (42 marks) OR Write about the significance of the ways the three writers you have studied create and use suspense in their narratives.