Starter quiz
- What is the 'argument' in your essay?
- the quotations you have chosen to use
- the main idea in your essay ✓
- the key characters and moments in the essay
- the context you link to your analysis
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- Which of the following is NOT a feature of a good essay?
- interwoven analysis of language, form and structure
- integrated context
- an introduction with an interesting, critical thesis
- a conclusion that introduces a new idea ✓
- a consistent argument
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- How should quotations be presented in essays?
- introduced with a bit of context about where they are from ✓
- not introduced - the reader should know where i the text the quotation is from
- embedded within the sentence ✓
- not embedded - introduced with 'Dickens writes'
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- What are connotations?
- information about a writer or their time period
- ideas we form about a text
- images or ideas that a certain word evokes ✓
- a summary of one's main argument
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- Which of the following might be examples of subject terminology?
- character ✓
- selfish
- Malthusian
- simile ✓
- Dickens
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- Which of the following is an example of an embedded quotation?
- The girl's long and blonde hair was "flowing in the wind." ✓
- The writer states: "he had always been angry for as long as he could remember."
- The novella opens with the phrase: "Marley was dead; to begin with."
- The novella's concluding statement that 'peace had finally been restored...' ✓
- Life was always hard for Jessica. We know that: "Jessica had struggled."
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