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GCSE English Literature · key term
Exact words taken from a text and used as evidence for an interpretation.
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Paper 1
A word or phrase taken directly from a text and used as evidence for an interpretation.
Revise: Key quotationsA useful quotation helps you explain something about Shakespeare’s play. Its meaning depends on who speaks, to whom, when and why. The same word can connect different parts of the plot: being bound can mean owing money, feeling gratitude or being trapped by an obligation.
Paper 2
Choose evidence that answers the question, rather than inserting a quotation simply because you remember it.
Use short, accurate quotations and analyse particular words in their dramatic context. Precise references to events can also support your argument.
Connect the extract to relevant moments elsewhere in the play, showing development or contrast rather than listing quotations.
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An exact word or passage taken from a text and used as evidence for an interpretation.
A useful quotation does more than identify a theme. It helps you explain what a character believes, why they act as they do, or how one event leads to another. In A Christmas Carol, the same words can acquire a different meaning as Scrooge changes: his dismissal of the poor becomes a rebuke when the Ghost of Christmas Present repeats it to him.
Words reproduced exactly from a text and used as evidence for an interpretation.
An exact word, phrase or sentence taken from a text and used as evidence for an interpretation.
Paper 1, Paper 2
Words reproduced exactly from a text and used as evidence for an interpretation.
Revise: Key quotationsA useful quotation helps you explain an idea about Anita and Me. Meena’s descriptions reveal not only what other people are like, but also how she sees them at a particular stage of her childhood. As her judgement changes, the significance of her relationships changes too.
Exact words taken from a text and used as evidence to support an interpretation.
An exact word or passage taken from a text and used as evidence for an interpretation.
Words taken directly from a text and reproduced accurately to support an interpretation.
Component 1, Component 2
A short passage from a text used as evidence for an interpretation.
Revise: Key quotationsA useful quotation does more than remind you what happened. It gives you something precise to examine: a word, an image, a contrast, a promise or a change in a character’s voice. In The Merchant of Venice, the same quotation often connects several themes.
A short piece of wording taken exactly from a text and used as evidence for an interpretation.
