Here are some exemplar answers from past candidates. It's good to have a close read of these and look at how they have focused on the task and on the author at work in creating the text, plus how that particular aspect of the text might be interpreted.
January 2010: 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.
Exemplar (39 marks, Band 6): http://intranet.wellingtoncollege.org.uk/resource.aspx?id=188923
June 2010: Write about the significance of narrators in the work of the three writers you have studied.
Exemplar, 84 marks: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=167173881
June 2011: Write about the significance of descriptive language as it is used by each of the three writers you have studied.
Exemplar (31 marks, Band 5): http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=167176672&key=undefined&pass=undefined
Further exemplar (53 marks): http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=167176395
Further exemplar (63 marks): http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=167173812
Further exemplar (52 marks): http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=167173751
June 2012:
Write about the ways Christina Rossetti tells the story in the first eighty lines of 'Goblin Market'.
How far do you agree that 'Goblin Market' is a story for children?
Write about the significance of climaxes and/or anticlimaxes in the narratives of the three writers you have studied.
or
Write about the significance of the ways speech is used in the work of the three writers you have studied.
Exemplar 63 marks (Band 5): http://cherwellenglish.typepad.com/files/litb1-june-2012-exemplar-script---63-marks.pdf
Exemplar 74 marks (Band 6): http://cherwellenglish.typepad.com/files/litb1-june-2012-exemplar-script---74-marks.pdf
Exemplar 78 marks, (Band 6): http://cherwellenglish.typepad.com/files/litb1-june-2012-exemplar-script---78-marks.pdf
Exemplar (70 marks): http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=167173634
Further Exemplar (70 marks): http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=167173621
Further exemplars: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=167173647;
It's also helpful to read some of the examiners' reports form past examinations. Here is one from January 2012: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-LITB1-WRE-JAN12.PDF
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