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Using quotations and close analysis - Responding to a fiction text - AQA - GCSE English Language Revision - AQA - BBC Bitesize

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Learn and revise how to structure and write an essay response to a fiction text with this BBC Bitesize GCSE English Language (AQA) study guide.

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Overview

Author

William Shakespeare

About the Title

Shakespeare took the title from an earlier anonymous play, The T rue Chronicle History of King Leir and His Three Daughters, Gonerill, Ragan and Cordelia, which was also a source of the story. The source play was performed as early as 1594.

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Overview

Author

William Shakespeare

Perspective and Narrator

Hamlet is written in objective third-person point of view. To give audiences some insight into characters' inner thoughts, Shakespeare uses short speeches (asides) and longer speeches (soliloquies) in which characters speak their thoughts aloud.

Tense

Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in the present tense.

About the Title

Hamlet is a tale of mourning, madness, and revenge. The play's title refers to its central character, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, and to his murdered father, King Hamlet, whose death he must avenge.

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When analysing language you must show that you are aware of how it is written. This means identifying the language features used, and explaining their effect.

The following are some language features you may notice while reading.

Alliteration

This is where consecutive words begin with the same letter and, more importantly, the same sound.

Allusion

An allusion is an indirect reference to a person, place, historical event or another literary work.

Hyperbole

Hyperbole is the deliberate use of exaggeration to emphasise a point.

Onomatopoeia

This is where a word makes the sound of the thing it describes.

Simile

A simile is a comparison where one thing is described as something else, using 'like' or 'as'.

Metaphor

This is a comparison where one thing is described in terms of something else.

Shakespeare uses pathetic fallacy in Romeo and Juliet when Romeo compares Juliet to the moon: James launched himself at his opponent . This makes James sound like a missile, moving quickly and powerfully.

Pathetic fallacy

This technique involves giving human emotions to non-human objects. It is often used to create atmosphere by suggesting that the weather or other natural phenomena have feelings - feelings that might reflect the emotions of the characters.

Shakespeare uses pathetic fallacy in Romeo and Juliet :

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon Romeo and Juliet (Act Two, Scene Two, Line Four

Here Romeo suggests that the moon is envious of Juliet's beauty.

Personification

This is a comparison where something non-human ( inanimate ) is described in human terms.

Synaesthesia

Synaesthesia is a technique in which one sense is used to represent another, or where a sense is used to add meaning to an unrelated experience, eg:

"feeling blue" uses colour and the sense of sight to describe emotion

"bitter cold" uses the sense of taste (bitterness) to describe temperature and the sense of touch

Synecdoche

This means using part of something to represent the whole, eg:

referring to a 'set of wheels' to mean a car

referring to 'boots on the ground' to refer to soldiers in an army

It can also mean using a whole to represent a part, eg:

referring to "the whole world" to mean people generally or everyone in a group

referring to "Downing Street" to mean the Prime Minister or someone else who works for the PM

Transferred epithet

An epithet is an adjective used to describe a key characteristic of a person, place or thing. For example 'terrible' in Ivan the Terrible .

Transferred epithet is a technique where the epithet is used to describe something other than the person or thing it actually refers to.

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Analysing language - Analysing language - Higher English Revision - BBC Bitesize

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When analysing language you must show that you are aware of how it is written. This means identifying the language features used, and explaining their effect. The following are some language features you may notice while reading. This is where consecutive words begin with the same letter and, more importantly, the same sound.

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In a discursive piece you are expected to discuss a given topic and present an argument related to it.

Organising a discursive essay

There are two basic types of discursive essay. Firstly there are persuasive essays in which you can argue strongly either in favour of or against a given discussion.

Alternatively, there are argumentative essays where you look at a discussion topic in a balanced way.

Finding information for a discursive essay

There are many sources you can use to find information for your discursive essay. These include:

When looking in the library, focus on the non-fiction and reference sections. When searching online, always think carefully about key words.

Make sure you consider the reliability of all your sources. It is important you keep a note of where all your information comes from. This will allow you to check it again later and to complete your bibliography and footnotes.

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Discursive writing - Discursive Writing - Higher English Revision - BBC Bitesize

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For Higher English learn how to begin to write either an argumentative or persuasive essay.

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Reflective writing - Reflective Writing - Higher English Revision - BBC Bitesize

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For Higher English learn about the style, conventions and purpose of personal reflective pieces of writing.

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Analysing language - Analysing language in Critical Reading - National 5 English Revision - BBC Bitesize

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In National 5 English revise language techniques such as figures of speech, sentence structure, tone and word choice, for the Critical Reading exam.

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How to analyse sentence structure - Analysing sentence structure in Critical Reading - National 5 English Revision - BBC Bitesize

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In National 5 English revise language techniques such as sentence structure for the Critical Reading exam.

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How to pass Higher English - Exam skills - Higher English Revision - BBC Bitesize

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Revise how the Higher English course is assessed with tips on the exam and assignment. Bitesize Scotland guide to Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Higher SQA

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Scottish Set Text: Norman MacCaig poetry

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Scottish Set Text: Norman MacCaig poetry

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Norman MacCaig - Higher English - BBC Bitesize

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Higher English Norman MacCaig learning resources for adults, children, parents and teachers.

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Exam Revision Guide: SQA National Higher English - RUAE Guided Analysis

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Scottish Set Text: Carol Ann Duffy revision

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Scottish Set Text: Carol Ann Duffy revision

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In this autobiographical poem, Duffy considers and explores the sense of isolation and confusion she felt as a child when her family moved from the Gorbals in Glasgow to England.

She describes both the literal details of the journey and the move as well as the deeper, metaphorical journey that she and her family experienced as a result of this decision.

As the title suggests, she considers to what extent our identity is shaped and defined not only by our environment but by changes in dialect and culture.

The initial catalyst for the poem, the memories of the move and her gradual assimilation into her new home, provokes a bigger, more philosophical meditation on the subject of childhood itself.

Perhaps the most significant line in the poem comes at the start of stanza two when she asserts that All childhood is an emigration, revealing clearly the universal truth that the process of growing up is always synonymous with change.

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Originally - Originally - National 5 English Revision - BBC Bitesize

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In this autobiographical poem, Duffy considers and explores the sense of isolation and confusion she felt as a child when her family moved from the Gorbals in Glasgow to England. She describes both the literal details of the journey and the move as well as the deeper, metaphorical journey that she and her family experienced as a result of this decision.

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National 4 English - Scotland - BBC Bitesize

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National 4 English learning resources for adults, children, parents and teachers organised by topic.