AS
ENGLISH LITERATURE B
Paper 1B Literary genres: Drama: Aspects of comedy
AQA AS ENGLISH LITERATURE B Paper 1B Literary genres: Drama: Aspects of comedy QP MAY 2025
Thursday 15 May 2025 Morning Time allowed: 1 hour 30
minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
an AQA 12-page answer book.
Instructions
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7716/1B.
Do all rough work in your answer book. Cross through any work you do not want to be
marked.
You must answer one question from Section A and one question from Section B.
Information
The maximum mark for this paper is 50.
The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
In your response you need to:
– analyse carefully the writers’ methods
– explore the contexts of the texts you are writing about
– explore the connections across the texts you have studied
– explore different interpretations of your texts.
IB/G/Jun25/G4002/
7716/1B
E2
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Section A
Answer one question from this section.
Either
0 1 The Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare
Explore the significance of aspects of dramatic comedy in the following passage
in relation to the play as a whole.
You should consider the following in your answer:
the presentation of the relationship between Petruchio and Katherina
the dramatic function of Hortensio
other relevant aspects of dramatic comedy.
[25 marks]
Enter Petruchio, Katherina, Hortensio and Servants
PETRUCHIO
Come on, a God’s name, once more toward our
father’s. Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines
the moon!
KATHERINA
The moon? The sun! It is not moonlight now.
PETRUCHIO
I say it is the moon that shines so bright.
KATHERINA
I know it is the sun that shines so bright.
PETRUCHIO
Now by my mother’s son, and that’s
myself, It shall be moon, or star, or
what I list,
Or e’er I journey to your father’s house.
(To the Servants) Go on and fetch our horses back
again. Evermore crossed and crossed, nothing but
crossed!
HORTENSIO
Say as he says, or we shall never go.
KATHERINA
Forward, I pray, since we have come so
far, And be it moon, or sun, or what
you please. And if you please to call it
a rush-candle, Henceforth I vow it
shall be so for me.
PETRUCHIO
I say it is the moon.
KATHERINA I know it is the moon.
PETRUCHIO
Nay, then you lie. It is the blessèd sun.
KATHERINA
Then, God be blessed, it is the blessèd
sun. But sun it is not, when you say it
is not,
And the moon changes even as your
IB/G/
Jun25/7716/1B
ENGLISH LITERATURE B
Paper 1B Literary genres: Drama: Aspects of comedy
AQA AS ENGLISH LITERATURE B Paper 1B Literary genres: Drama: Aspects of comedy QP MAY 2025
Thursday 15 May 2025 Morning Time allowed: 1 hour 30
minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
an AQA 12-page answer book.
Instructions
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7716/1B.
Do all rough work in your answer book. Cross through any work you do not want to be
marked.
You must answer one question from Section A and one question from Section B.
Information
The maximum mark for this paper is 50.
The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
In your response you need to:
– analyse carefully the writers’ methods
– explore the contexts of the texts you are writing about
– explore the connections across the texts you have studied
– explore different interpretations of your texts.
IB/G/Jun25/G4002/
7716/1B
E2
, 2
Section A
Answer one question from this section.
Either
0 1 The Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare
Explore the significance of aspects of dramatic comedy in the following passage
in relation to the play as a whole.
You should consider the following in your answer:
the presentation of the relationship between Petruchio and Katherina
the dramatic function of Hortensio
other relevant aspects of dramatic comedy.
[25 marks]
Enter Petruchio, Katherina, Hortensio and Servants
PETRUCHIO
Come on, a God’s name, once more toward our
father’s. Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines
the moon!
KATHERINA
The moon? The sun! It is not moonlight now.
PETRUCHIO
I say it is the moon that shines so bright.
KATHERINA
I know it is the sun that shines so bright.
PETRUCHIO
Now by my mother’s son, and that’s
myself, It shall be moon, or star, or
what I list,
Or e’er I journey to your father’s house.
(To the Servants) Go on and fetch our horses back
again. Evermore crossed and crossed, nothing but
crossed!
HORTENSIO
Say as he says, or we shall never go.
KATHERINA
Forward, I pray, since we have come so
far, And be it moon, or sun, or what
you please. And if you please to call it
a rush-candle, Henceforth I vow it
shall be so for me.
PETRUCHIO
I say it is the moon.
KATHERINA I know it is the moon.
PETRUCHIO
Nay, then you lie. It is the blessèd sun.
KATHERINA
Then, God be blessed, it is the blessèd
sun. But sun it is not, when you say it
is not,
And the moon changes even as your
IB/G/
Jun25/7716/1B
