The struggle for identity in modern literature: wider reading bookmark

A helpful bookmark to remind students what to look for when reading a text. Focuses on the syllabus theme of 'the struggle for identity' in the Texts across time unit for AQA's A-level English Literature specification A. Includes prompts on the wider social, historical, and cultural context of the text, and key literary devices including: 

• Type of text
• Date
• Subject matter
• Voice
• Setting
• Use of time
• Structure
• Distinctive
• patterns
• Images
• Dialogue
• Description
• Allusions
• Contrasts
• Tone
• Purpose