Leaving Certificate Ordinary Level – Excellence in English Language and Literature
(From Leaving Certifi cate Ordinary Level 2013)
1. (a) Choose one text that you have studied as part of your comparative course. Explain, with reference to at least one aspect of the social setting of that text, why you would or would not like to live in the world of that text.
(b) Compare the aspect(s) of social setting of the text that you referred to in (a) above with the same aspect(s) of social setting in one or more other texts from your comparative course. Support your answer by reference to the text that you referred to in (a) above and to at least one other text from your comparative course.
OR 2. ‘Aspects of social setting can have a signifi cant infl uence on characters’ lives.’
(a) (i) Use one or more key moments, from one text that you have studied on your comparative course, to show that an aspect of social setting had a signifi cant infl uence on the life of one character in this text.
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(ii) Use one or more key moments, from a different text on your comparative course, to show that the same aspect of social setting had a signifi cant infl uence on the life of one character in this text.
(b) Compare the way(s) in which the aspect of social setting that you identifi ed in (a) above signifi cantly infl uenced the lives of the two characters you have written about. Remember to refer to both texts in your answer.
