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Modernism: Edexcel A‑Level English Literature questions

Every Edexcel A-Level English Literature exam question on Modernism, 2016–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.

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  1. Q19

    June 2025 · Paper 3

    30 marksModernism
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  2. Q20

    June 2025 · Paper 3

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  3. Q19

    June 2024 · Paper 3

    30 marksModernism
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  4. Q20

    June 2024 · Paper 3

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  5. Q19

    June 2023 · Paper 3

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  6. Q20

    June 2023 · Paper 3

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  7. Q19

    June 2022 · Paper 3

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  8. Q20

    June 2022 · Paper 3

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  9. Q19

    November 2021 · Paper 3

    30 marksModernism
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  10. Q20

    November 2021 · Paper 3

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  11. Q19

    October 2020 · Paper 3

    30 marksModernism
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  12. Q20

    October 2020 · Paper 3

    30 marksModernism
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  13. Q19

    June 2019 · Paper 3

    30 marksModernism
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  14. Q20

    June 2019 · Paper 3

    30 marksModernism
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  15. Q19

    June 2018 · Paper 3

    30 marksModernism
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  16. Q20

    June 2018 · Paper 3

    30 marksModernism
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  17. Q19

    June 2017 · Paper 3

    30 marksModernism
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  18. Q20

    June 2017 · Paper 3

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All 18 questions on Modernism, as a list
  1. June 2025, Paper 3, Q19 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which poets present impermanence in Lullaby by Auden and one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
  2. June 2025, Paper 3, Q20 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which innocence is presented in in Just by Cummings and one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors.
  3. June 2024, Paper 3, Q19 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which poets present the relationship between humans and nature in Mowing by Robert Frost and one other poem. You must relate your discussion
  4. June 2024, Paper 3, Q20 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which poets present moments of significance in Recuerdo by Edna St Vincent Millay and one other poem. You must relate your discussion to rel
  5. June 2023, Paper 3, Q19 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which poets present indecision in Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost and one other poem. You must relate your discussion t
  6. June 2023, Paper 3, Q20 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which contradictions are used in what if a much of a which of a wind by e e cummings and one other poem. You must relate your discussion to
  7. June 2022, Paper 3, Q19 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which beauty is presented in The Fawn by Edna St Vincent Millay and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextua
  8. June 2022, Paper 3, Q20 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which suffering is presented in Musée des Beaux Arts by W H Auden and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant context
  9. November 2021, Paper 3, Q19 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which poets create a narrative voice in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T S Eliot and in one other poem. You must relate your discuss
  10. November 2021, Paper 3, Q20 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which the natural world is presented in To a Snail by Marianne Moore and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant cont
  11. October 2020, Paper 3, Q19 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which poets create visual images in The Hunters in the Snow by William Carlos Williams and in one other poem. You must relate your discussio
  12. October 2020, Paper 3, Q20 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which unhappiness is presented in Time does not bring relief; you all have lied… by Edna St Vincent Millay and in one other poem. You must r
  13. June 2019, Paper 3, Q19 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which relationships are presented in Mending Wall by Robert Frost and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant context
  14. June 2019, Paper 3, Q20 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which the art and culture of the past are used in The Shield of Achilles by W H Auden and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion
  15. June 2018, Paper 3, Q19 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which shifting points of view are used in T S Eliot’s La Figlia Che Piange and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevan
  16. June 2018, Paper 3, Q20 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which time is used in Marianne Moore’s What Are Years? and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual factors
  17. June 2017, Paper 3, Q19 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which decisive moments are presented in The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevan
  18. June 2017, Paper 3, Q20 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which human nature is presented in pity this busy monster, manunkind by e e cummings and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion

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