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Poem needed: My Last Duchess - Robert Browning

Specification: (Essay must meet these guidelines)
Band 6 (26 – 30 marks)
AO1 use of appropriate vocabulary and technically fluent style with well structured and coherent content and expression
AO1 always relevant with very sharp focus on task
AO2 detailed and sophisticated exploration of key features of form and structure with perceptive evaluation
of how they shape meanings
AO2 exploration and analysis of key aspects of language with perceptive evaluation of how they shape
meanings
AO3 detailed and perceptive understanding of issues raised in concept of comedy
AO3 perceptive consideration of how re-creative process can highlight different interpretations of texts with
sharp evaluation of its strengths and weaknesses
AO4 excellent understanding of ways of contextualising dramatic ‘comedy’ through re-creative process
AO4 excellent understanding of a range of other contextual factors with specific, detailed links between
context/texts/tasks

Talk about Language, Form and Structure of the poem and how it REVEALS THE CHARACTER OF THE DUKE.

The form of the poem is a dramatic monologue. 


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