The English Assignment Pride and Prejudice
Having not made as many notes in English as other subjects I’m glad that now we have an assignment to do. I did write an essay in lesson, I say essay but it was just a paragraph or two. It was ok, I asked the teacher to check through it to see if I’m going in the right direction and he seems pleased with, pointing out both good and bad bit. This is the sort of feedback I like. Unfortunately I didnt save the work to my memory stick but it is on the college intranet, which I can’t access right now. Once it’s running or I get back to college to save it to the memory stick I’ll load it up here.
The homework assignment is an exam style question but because it’s still early on in the course we can take our time with it. Having said that, I am going to keep it to a length that I can manage, as with the philosophy essays, so that I have a good idea about how much to write in the exam.
Here’s a condensed version of the sheet given.
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ESSAY — Exam section A Question A (on a part of the novel)
The particular focus in this part of the exam is Assessment Objective 2 (see end): analysis of
- form (eg it is a work of fiction, a romance, a social comedy, a family saga, etc)
- structure (eg what is revealed, when? why?)
- language (eg type of language given to different characters, descriptions characters, questions, exclamations, irony ….)
Therefore in your essay you should at some point consider all 3 of these bullet points.
Choose ONE of the following questions
- Write about the ways Austen opens the story in chapter 1.
- Write about the ways Austen ends the story in chapter 61.
- How does Austen tell the story in chapter 19?
- What method does Austen use to develop the characters in Pride and Prejudice?
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I’ve chosen question two and made a start of some notes and quotations from the final chapter and found it quite interesting because Austen moves from the third person narrative into telling the story from what seems to be her own point of view.
Assessment Objective 2
AO2 – Demonstrate detailed critical understanding in analysing the ways in which structure, form and language shape meanings in literary texts
Also look up the specific AO for Pride and Prejudice.
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