Christina Rossetti A Level Revision Pack

This is a condensed revision pack that covers all of the key material needed to succeed in the Rossetti portion of the A-Level exam (tailored to Edexcel, but the information is widely applicable).
This pack will walk students step-by-step through what they need to do to revise for their Rossetti exam.
This pack includes:
Key Vocabulary
• A list of key vocabulary that can be used to dissect the poems, broken down by theme and covering the breadth of Rossetti’s work. Allows students to enhance their essay writing with higher level language.
Understanding the Poems
• Poem Groupings: Poems grouped by theme and date.
• Essential Arguments: A breakdown of Rossetti’s essential arguments put forward in regards to love and romance; friendship and sisterhood; memory and nostalgia; women; social justice; Victorian society; Christian morality; faith and redemption; corruption and evil.
Argument and Style
• Literary Influences: A breakdown of all her major allusions and intertexts.
• What is Rossetti’s point? Sentence stems organised by argument, breaks down her key arguments and how they are posed.
• Craft: Sentence stems organised by theme that allow for in depth exploration of Rossetti’s craft, compares to their wider body of work and the Victorian era.
• Key Context: All of the overarching key context that relates Rossetti’s poetry, dual coded and organised into a grid.
Exam Technique
• How to Approach an Exam-Style Question
• What if I Need Support? How to Break Down a Poem