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Unit 4: Close Study of Literary Texts
Quick questions on Integrating evidence and metalanguage in the EA: QCE English Unit 4 (Topic 2)
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Why does this feature, deployed in this moment, do what it does?Show answer
What does it position the reader to feel, think, doubt, or accept?
What is the four-step quotation pattern?Show answer
Step 1. Embed the quotation into your own clause. A short phrase (typically 4 to 8 words) is fused into the syntax of your sentence. The quotation marks indicate the borrowed words; the surrounding sentence is your own.
What is metalanguage that lifts a Band 5 response to Band 6?Show answer
Generic terms ("technique", "device", "language", "shows", "explores") signal Band 4 or 5. Specific terms lift to Band 6. Replace each generic term with a specific one whenever you use it.
What is band 4?Show answer
"As Jane Eyre says: 'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.' This shows that Jane wants to be free and that the author is showing female empowerment."
What is band 6?Show answer
"Jane's refusal of Rochester's offer, framed in the binary of 'no bird; and no net', uses the metaphor of cage-and-flight to make her freedom not just a desire but a metaphysical condition; the noun-phrase imperative 'I am a free human being' performs the autonomy by speaking it into being."
What is quote then comment?Show answer
Long quotation followed by general comment. The pattern signals Band 4. Replace with embed-then-analysis.
What is quotation as decoration?Show answer
A quotation that is included but not analysed. Every quotation must be followed by feature-and-effect analysis.
What is generic metalanguage?Show answer
"Uses literary techniques" or "shows the theme" carry no specific analytical weight. Replace with precise terms.
What is misquotation?Show answer
A misremembered quotation is worse than no quotation. Memorise carefully and conservatively. If you cannot quote exactly, paraphrase and mark it as such.
What is quotation without context?Show answer
A quotation lifted out of context can mean anything. Include enough context (a phrase identifying the scene or speaker) for the reader to locate it.
What are block-indented long quotations?Show answer
Almost never appropriate in a 60-minute analytical essay. Embed short phrases.