Reading Prose Fiction for O-Level Literature in English (SEAB 2065) quiz quiz

A detailed retelling of the plot in order

Memorising the names of every minor character

Listing the chapters in the novel

Analysis of how the writer crafts narrative to create effect and meaning

Narrating the plot instead of analysing the writing

Quoting too briefly

Using too many technical terms

Writing too short an introduction

Simply label it as first or third person and move on

Identify who tells the story and how much they know, then explain the effect of that choice

Assume every narrator is reliable

Ignore it because it does not affect meaning

Total objectivity and access to every character's thoughts

A guarantee that everything stated is true

Intimacy and bias, with possible unreliability and limited knowledge

The same effect as an omniscient narrator

Because it tells the reader the exact date and place only

Because it should always be skipped in analysis

Because it only matters in poetry

Because place, time and detail build atmosphere, reflect character and signal theme

Describing lists qualities; analysing explains the writer's methods and their effect

There is no difference

Analysing means giving the character's full backstory

Describing means quoting and analysing means paraphrasing

They are identical in what they ask for

The passage-based question wants close analysis of a printed extract; the essay wants an argued response across the whole text

The essay forbids quotation

The passage-based question requires you to retell the whole novel

With a summary of what happens in the scene

With a long quotation

With a point that answers the question

With a fact about the author's life

Only poetry has craft in its language

Style never affects meaning

Style means the length of the book

Word choice, sentence structure, imagery and rhythm in prose all create effect

To follow how the idea is developed through character, setting, structure and key moments across the text

To mention the theme once in the introduction

To list the chapters where the word appears

To summarise the plot from start to finish

To quote at maximum length in the exam

So you have precise, well-chosen evidence ready and do not hunt for it under time pressure

Because quotations replace the need for analysis

To avoid reading the whole text

Analyses the writer's craft very well

Quotes too little to be valid

Narrates the plot rather than analysing how meaning is made

Uses too advanced a vocabulary

They are the same activity

Analysing structure means counting the number of scenes

Summarising is more advanced than analysing

Analysing structure explains how the telling is ordered and shaped for effect; summarising just states what happens