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What is build a tagged quotation bank?Show answer
For each closed-book text, build a bank of short quotations (a phrase or a line, not a paragraph), and tag each one with two things.
What is keep quotations short?Show answer
Short quotations are easier to memorise accurately and more useful analytically. A single precise phrase, quoted exactly, lets you analyse a specific method; a long passage is hard to recall verbatim and tempts you into paraphrase or padding. Aim for a wide bank of short, exact quotations rather than a few long ones.
What is a tagged entry?Show answer
A short Shakespeare quotation is banked with its tags: "method, a soliloquy with fracturing verse; themes, guilt, a divided mind, conscience." Recalling the line in the exam brings the analytical move with it, so the candidate can write "Shakespeare isolates the speaker in soliloquy, and the fracturing verse exposes a conscience divided against itself" without the text.
What is rehearsal in practice?Show answer
Revising the drama comparison, a candidate picks the theme of power, recalls four tagged quotations from each play, and writes a timed comparative paragraph from memory. The exercise reveals that one play's bank is thin on the consequences of power, so they add quotations before the exam.
What is q1?Show answer
What two things should each banked quotation be tagged with? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why memorise analysis, not just quotations? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Describe how you would revise a closed-book text for the exam. [short response]
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