Starter quiz
- What narrative perspective is 'The Tell-Tale Heart' written from?
- first person ✓
- second person
- third person
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- What language method is used in the following quotation from 'The Tell-Tale Heart': "it is the beating of his hideous heart"?
- personification
- alliteration ✓
- simile
- onomatopoeia
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- Complete the quotation from 'The Tell-Tale Heart': "True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am ...?"
- 'mad' ✓
- Which of the following is not an example of the writer's method?
- the words they use
- the characters they create
- the allusions they make
- the publisher they use ✓
- the puncutation they use
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- Complete the quotation from 'The Tell-Tale Heart': "To think that there I was, opening the door, little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts. I fairly ______ at the idea".
- 'chuckled' ✓
- Match the key vocabulary up to its definition.
- heinous⇔wicked and appaling ✓
- concealed⇔to be hidden ✓
- deranged⇔to not be of sound mind ✓
- aghast⇔horrified and shocked ✓
- irrational⇔not based upon logic or reason ✓
Exit quiz
- Which question word forces you to think about the writer's use of methods?
- what
- how ✓
- why
- which
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- Which piece of punctuation does Poe use to show the narrator's escalating delusions in 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?
- question mark
- exclamation mark ✓
- full stop
- speech marks
- ellipses
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- If an essay is concise, what does this mean?
- it uses as many words as possible to express as little meaning as possible
- it uses as few words as possible to express as little meaning as possible
- it uses as few words as possible to express as much meaning as possible ✓
- it uses as many words as possible to express as much meaning as possible
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- The writer's ______ is any decision that the writer makes consciously.
- 'method' ✓
- Which of the following are examples of embedded quotations?
- The narrator tells us: "I felt that I must scream"....
- The narrator "felt" that "I must scream"....
- The narrator said he "felt" that "I must scream"...
- The narrator "felt that [he] must scream"... ✓
- The narrator "felt" that he "must scream".... ✓
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- What is the effect of this quotation from 'The Tell-Tale Heart': "I gasped for breath—and yet the officers heard it not"?
- “Gasped” here shows the narrator’s sheer panic and loss of control. ✓
- "Gasped" shows that the feels suffocated by his delusions. ✓
- "Gasped" shows that the narrator is appalled by the police officers.
- "Gasped" shows how excited the narrator is for his crimes to be discovered.
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Key learning points
- It is important to consider the first version of your work a first draft and not the finished essay.
- Redrafting your critical writing is just as important as redrafting your creative writing.
- A clear and concise essay focuses on the writer’s use of methods.
- Successful essays offer a comprehensive explanation and exploration of the effects the writer’s methods.
- Short, embedded quotations make your essay more concise and coherent.
Common misconception
Students think that the first version of their work is the finished piece.
Redrafting work improves its quality, depth and coherence. Students should be encouraged to appreciate, and embrace the value of redrafting their work.
Keywords
Redraft - rewriting your work to improve it
Methods - any conscious choice the writer makes - this could be using a simile or choosing a specific word
Concise - using as few words as possible to express as much meaning as possible
Tentative - not absolute, certain or agreed
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