Question
How should a student annotate a Shakespeare extract in the 5 minutes before writing? What should they look for? (8 marks equivalent)
Answer guidance:
- Circle: unusual or charged words; repeated words; imagery.
- Note: tone (aggressive, anxious, tender, ironic?); shifts in tone.
- Mark: rhetorical devices (apostrophe, rhetorical question, list); word order (syntactic inversion).
- Observe form: is it verse or prose? (In what context does prose appear?); rhyme (couplets signal a scene ending or witches); broken lines (verse interrupted = emotional instability).
- Mark the passage's place in the play — what has just happened? What comes next? This helps you discuss the dramatic context.
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