Inspector Calls - AQA GCSE English Literature

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• Doorbell ring moment interrupts mr.b audience reflect comments
• Describe sheila reacts shown photograph stifles sob exits
• Explain made sheila lose temper milwards claims eva
• Colour lighting inspector's arrival pink
• Shows priestley characters younger taking jb priestley's message/intended
• Birling young people listen time you’ll living world
• I young honest admit faults eric refuses cover
• Mrs i’m ashamed don’t birling eric absolutely i
• Began learn you’ve stopped frightens talk i can’t
• Younger generation pair famous can’t joke mr birling
• Class conflict upper priestley lower shows birling family
• Mr birling shows men audience told eric advantage
• Edna mr varied classes represented characters maid wealthy
• Social birlings status point conflict members family children
• Younger end play conflict older members birlings generation
• Mr play birling's character development/changes birling changed end
• I’m talking hard-headed practical man business dramatic irony
• You’ll hear people war inevitable fiddlesticks!’   language dismissive
• Titanic he’s sails week…and unsinkable absolutely unsinkable.’   exclamatory
• Mrs girls class birling’s language quite  abrupt dismissive
• Inspector question play priestley dead reason men dickens
• Mrs birling men half working edwardian time i
• Audience play family priestley’s birling’s items symbols immediately
• Birling audience war talk i trouble labour prosperity
• Birlings writer displaying good warmth family dislikeable play
• Gerald eva birling control mrs gerald’s sheila she’s
• Mrs birling eva play charity gerald priestley complete
• Inspector birling inspector’s birling’s arrival moral family speech
• Birling workers inspector figure duty mr quickly eva
• Birling sheila inspector mr play eva father daughter
• Mrs birling men half working edwardian time i
• Birling audience war priestly talk i trouble labour
• Topic sentence introduces essay stated question class conflict
• Sentence describes argue essay tensions classes didactic play
• Context play views bring explains/backs argument set rigid
• Portrayed technique sentence writer things argued conflicting time
• Sentence concludes introduction writer piece essay explore class
• Main body paragraphs make essay examine characters birling
• Sentence point introduces making paragraph relates question contrasting
• Technique priestley's dramatic irony  makes modern day audience
• Evidence insert quote back argument i tone page
• Explanation effect technique stage directions  amplifies conflict characters
• Connect writer  writer specific reason inspector mouthpiece priestley
• Signpost point related question priestley conflict characters play
• Essay conclusion sentence shown conclude examined priestley explored
• Conclusion summary sentence paragraph explaining shown explored uneasy
• Context back play conclusion bring bit wider creates
• Question social conclusion concluding sentence link specifics wider
• Class i jb priestley british command specialised throwing
• Priestley bradford witnessed lot poverty working classes city
• Socialist priestley surrounded values raised father proud friends
• War experience priestley's broke priestley volunteered army served
• Priestley's experiences war made realise social inequality consequences
• Priestley war r studied modern history political science
• Show wartime priestley ww2 radio broadcaster bbc postscripts
• Free priestley's outspoken speeches floundering stools acquaintance labelled
• Priestley political co-founder common wealth party socialist point
• Key theme priestley's work responsibility  looked individual collective
• Time priestley fascinated theories developed worked plays looked
• Victorian influence wasn’t written set era culture priestley’s
• Queen set poor work victorian view charity philanthropy
• Upper lower classes lot closer experienced dreadful things.rationing
• Poor deserving poverty control individual deserved face starvation
• Women society fallen believed lost innocence grace god
• Women romantic ideal surrounding men's treatment fallen effort
• Men victorians idealised idea gentlemanly chivalry fallen women
• Hierarchy victorians determined obsessed strict rules lot morals
• Victorian double life restraint repression lead great deal
• World wars lasted great change economic political social
• Class rich system experienced bombing meant upper families
• War men jingoism  when britain decision met lot
• World war brought sense bombing meant class families
• Poor health beveridge’s report identified problems stopped people
• Great depression worst economic event industrialisation began wall
• Equal franchise act allowed men women age vote. 
• Stock money market wall street crash america’s crashed
• Decreased money wall street crash caused worldwide recession
• Classes great depression meant people experienced dire circumstances
• Classes upper luxurious stately homes estates country escape
• Poverty extreme cities countryside the
• Lower classes upper people children early huge distinction
• Class women lower needed work chance working life
• Women working class unmarried ostracised society.   vulnerable lived
• Girls lot upper class men exploited serving female
• Lower classes working expected serve upper treated young
• Working factories controlled industrial revolution class people worked
• Classes fear poor r began victorian era continued
• Poor rich people believed blame troubles lower classes
• Social mobility ability individual family group move classes
• Classes lower working social mobility non-existent couldn’t jobs
• People family heritage coming line wealthy successful carried
• Relationships gerald eva interactions classes marriage mr birling
• Lower priestley class divides stereotypes misgivings remained tackle
• Industrial revolution happened period time impacts refers transition
• Cities industrial revolution accompanied huge growth population income
• Money meaning wealth family decades.  noble royal respectable
• Money meaning wealth family decades noble royal respectable
• Birlings manufacturing money are a
• Croftsq e members nobility possess money
• Work people worked agriculture family businesses suddenly commonplace
• Working conditions atrocious early twentieth century
• Working class families lived slums cities filled communities
• Factories warehouses dirty poorly lit
• People din't access to  clean water working sewage
• Risk death working people exposed dangerous machinery lack
• Inspection working conditions regulations enforced people thought wrong
• Working women fined left work area dirty talked
• Women worked shops strict rules behave front customers
• Average salary women men for
• I accept responsibility mr birling inspector
• Didactic intending teach moral lesson
• Socialist members body capitalist ideology
• Accused slamming door eva's face mrs birling
• Explain made sheila lose temper milwards claims eva
• Colour lighting inspector's arrival pink
• Eva smith end life drank lot strong disinfectant
• Character treated eva animal thing eric birling
• Define alliteration repetition sound letter beginning words close
• Define allusion indirect reference concept theme explicit mention
• Define antithesis direct opposite concept person
• Define archetype person thing typical personality type clear
• Define caricature imitation notable characteristics exaggerated comic grotesque
• Define colloquialism informal word phrase normal familiar conversation
• Define connotation impression idea feeling word phrase literal
• Define dramatic irony'  audience situation characters discussing experiencing
• Define dichotomy division contrast opposed things
• Define epithet referring person thing adjective phrase describes
• Define epitome perfect embodiment concept
• Expression define euphemism replacement crude offensive vague mild
• Define foreshadowing giving hint warning future event explicitly
• Define grotesque ugly distorted physically figuratively comic repulsive
• Define hyperbole exaggerating literally in
• Define imagery language create visual picture
• Define innuendo implicit remark hint supposed suggestive inappropriate
• Define interjection sudden remark interruption text
• Define juxtaposition contrasting concepts characters close text
• Define manifestation physical expression realisation abstract idea character
• Define metaphor describing person object concept literally recognisable
• Define oxymoron fugure speech contradictory terms succession e.g
• Define parody imitating style genre piece work deliberate
• Define sarcasm opposite means true reasonable,  order mock
• Define satire irony exaggeration humour ridicule criticise someone's
• Text define semantic field words linked concept context
• Define sibilance repetition s sound word sentence section
• Define simile comparing nonliteral roder convey idea quality
• Define situational irony outcome event expected character audience
• Define symbolism character object event represent abstract idea
• Book-ending starting ending piece literature word,sentence event idea
• Chinese box narrative story told perspectives forms e.g
• Chronological events told order occured
• Cyclical sequence events repeats story
• Information exposition provided stage directions narration dialogue description
• Media res starting middle action
• Parallelism components similar grammar structure meaning sentence multiple
• Refrain word phrase sentence repeated text
• Tricolon parallel clauses words phrases quick succession e.g
• Allegory story character place event convey hidden meaning
• Dialogue conversation people a between
• Microcosm place group people event small-scale represent larger
• Monologue long speech character a
• Morality play form theatre medieval era designed teach
• Mouthpiece  playwright places character play acts spokesman views
• Parable story teach moral spiritual lesson typically told
• Realism form theatre focuses everyday middle-class life order
• Time real-time events play happening real life meaning
• Set stage scenery props represent setting play
• Stage direction instruction script play line character sound
• Transition playwright scenes acts play 
• Play made form plot strict structure depends reversals
• Whodunit murder mystery identity murderer revealed end process
• Power abuse position commit crime advantage facing consequences
• Accountability answerable actions decisions giving explanation totally responsible
• Autonomy ability govern including actions decisions
• Bigotry treating views intolerance unfairness
• Callous ignoring cruel insensitive and
• Make commercialisation managing market profit
• Commodity valuable object raw material bought sold trade
• Complacency smug confident satisfaction achievements
• Conscience moral sense wrong guides behaviour
• Convention traditional things the way
• Culpable taking responsibility blame wrongdoing
• Decadence decline morals culture due allowing excessive pleasure
• Degrade disrespecting presenting someone and
• Dehumanise denying humanity including emotions independent thought
• Disillusionment feeling disappointment dissatisfaction discovering good believed politics
• Duty moral legal responsibility obligation
• Ethical morally right
• Exploitation treating unfairly taking advantage benefit work
• Façade front mask put disguise someone’s true character
• Farce travesty sham comic degree
• Standard belief hypocrisy claiming acting
• Ideology system beliefs ideals typically forming framework political
• Infallible failing incapable making mistakes
• Infidelity unfaithful partner being to
• Ignominy public shame disgrace or
• Indoctrination teaching group people accept set beliefs question
• Inherent permanent essential part being
• Institution established law practice organisation founded social purpose
• Justice idea people treated rewarded punished fairly
• Justified reasonable being or right
• Misogyny hatred contempt prejudice women reason gender
• Morality principles personal social difference wrong legality religion
• Objectify treating woman object human
• Oppression prolonged mistreatment person group authority government
• Ostracised isolated excluded group society
• Privilege special rights advantages individual typically personal qualities
• Prejudice negative view opinion based experience logic
• Reductive presenting viewing oversimplified typically disrespectful crude
• Repression forcefully restraining emotion an
• Reputation viewed general population how
• Scapegoat person blamed faults easy target
• Secular linked religion spirituality not
• Sins deadly believed christian church worst lead immoral
• Socialite well-known important high society attends fashionable social
• Society obligation social responsibility idea act benefit
• Stereotype view preconception person thing fixed oversimplified held
• Stigma bad reputation view quality person action e.g
• Toxic masculinity concept traditional male gender roles restrict
• Willful ignorance choosing avoid acknowledging learning don’t make
• Vice behaviour trait immoral a
• Virtue behaviour trait moral a
• Young bright thing member high society 1920s 1930s
• Capitalism economic system trade industry owned privately state
• Party conservative main centre-right political united kingdom promoting
• Cycle poverty individual falls impossible intervention lack means
• Disenfranchisement vote not having the
• Generational divide perceived difference opinions views people ages
• Hierarchy members society ranked status wealth wealthy power
• Industrial revolution change manual automatic production manufacturing due
• Party labour main centre-left political united kingdom promoting
• Government economic laissez-faire system doesn’t interfere affairs law
• Party  liberal main central political united kingdom 19th
• Patriarchy form government society power possessed men women
• Social class divide society groups status wealth assumed
• Socialism economic system means production distribution trade owned
• Movement century suffragette women earn vote public elections
• Elite richest powerful successful group society
• Great depression severe worldwide economic downturn lasted causing
• State welfare system government protects promotes individuals social
• Women women’s suffrage vote gained owned property age
• War triple world i global entente france russia
• Highlight important question annotate underline key words extract
• Ao1
• Ao2
• Ao3
• Ao4
• Include plan what you should
• Topic sentences make link essay accross fluent structured
• Introduction main writing introduction/thesis briefly outline write body
• Include argument question main quote theme relevant make
• Examiner writing question interpretation introduction signpost extract text
• Main paragraphs writing body analysis part essay opportunity
• Talking relevant include main body paragraph topic sentence
• Alternative interpretations show examiner top student engaged text
• Writer show level sentence structures muliple interpretations revealing
• Writer's methods writer deliberately  includes language techniques present
• Events structure text order juxtaposing characters contrasts foils
• Characters contrasts foils illuminates comments actions
• Characterisation characters develop change text writer portrays
• Conclusion writing shouldn’t complete copy thesis depict ideas
• Include conclusion summary spoken relevant contextual factor summarise
• Conclusion paragraph starters conclude to
• Avoid adding context conclusion irrelevant yo cleverly link
• Development ideas show ao1 grade booster write paragraph
• Relevant quotes ao1 grade booster avoid remembering large
• Relevant contextual ao3 grade booster context factors employ
• Avoid level inclusion ao2 grade booster irrelevant terms
• Avoid ao3 grade booster generalisation  making elizabethan women
• Word mr birling discussing community nonsense
• Word mr birling repeat describing titanic unsinkable
• Sheila milwards january dress to
• Eva smith colleagues strike pay rise
• Eva smith change daisy renton
• I can'r accept responsibility mr birling inspector
• Eric claim eva how much
• Describe sheila reacts shown photograph stifles sob exits
• Eric meet eva smith stalls bar palace variety
• Eva smith colleagues strike pay rise
• Word mr birling repeat describing titanic unsinkable
• Deadly sins mr birling represent avarice greed
• Eva smith change daisy renton
• Sheila milwards january dress to
• Gerald reason give keeping daisy mistress felt return
• Gerald end affair daisy friend charlie brunswick owned
• Characters shown photograph inspector goole mr birling sheila
• Deadly sins sheila birling represent envy jealousy
• Gerald admit met daisy stalls bar palace variety
• Word mr birling discussing community nonsense
• Gerald leaves house sheila back engagement ring
• Explain connotations significance inspector goole spectre ghoul connote
• Gerald request interview ended asks leave house walk
• Describe eric behaved badly eva night met threatened
• Sport mr birling play chief constable colonel roberts
• Dramatic device climactic curtain sharp ring birling family
• Charity mrs birling works brumley women's organisation
• Ironic gerald's criticism dough-faced prostitutes visited bar pick
• Doorbell ring moment interrupts mr b audience reflect
• Deadly sins mr birling represent pride
• Blame mrs birling eva's situation girl i young
• Mrs b eva claims reason give refusing charity
• Characters committed crime eric birling
• Morning amused mrs birling as

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