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Unit 4: Independent explorations
Quick questions on Close reading of prose fiction in QCE Literature Unit 4
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What is the sentence?Show answer
Fiction is built sentence by sentence, and the sentence is where tone, pace and emphasis are set. A long accumulating sentence can build pressure; a short one after it can land like a blow. What a sentence puts first and last, what it subordinates, what it delays, all shape how the content registers. The close reader treats the sentence as a designed object, because the design carries feeling the content alone would not.
What is the management of time?Show answer
Fiction controls time: it can dilate a single moment across pages or compress years into a clause. Where a narrative slows is where it tells you to look, and where it hurries is a judgement about what matters less. Reading the pacing of a passage, what is rendered in scene and what is summarised, reveals the values built into the telling.
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