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Component 4: Prose Study (NEA)
Quick questions on The comparative prose essay: the NEA across five objectives - Eduqas A-Level English Literature
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What is a model integrated paragraph?Show answer
"Both writers make confinement a condition of womanhood, but they locate its source differently. The earlier novel, written when social convention governed a woman's options, traces confinement in the unspoken rules its free indirect discourse lets us feel from inside, so the constraint is internalised. The later text externalises confinement into explicit structures of power, its plainer prose naming what the earlier novel could only imply.
What is a weak paragraph upgraded?Show answer
"Both books are about women who are trapped." Upgraded: the earlier novel internalises confinement through free indirect discourse, registering it as invisible convention, while the later text externalises it into named structures in plainer prose, a contrast a feminist reading helps to frame. Separate assertions become an integrated comparison.
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Which objectives are prominent in the NEA alongside AO1 and AO2? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What does it mean to integrate the objectives rather than address them separately? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Compare how your two prose texts present the cost of ambition, in a 2,500 to 3,500 word essay. [NEA; marked out of 80]
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