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English 20-1

Units

All 6 units of English 20-1. Each one has a concepts page to learn from, practice questions marked as you go, and quizzes built at random.

Unit 1

Unit 1: Reading closely

Working out what a text means when it does not say so directly — in prose and in images — and being able to point at the words or details that made you think it.

12 questions · Easy, Medium and Hard

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Unit 2

Unit 2: How a story is built

The moving parts of prose fiction: conflict and structure, how a character is revealed, and what changes when the story is told by someone inside it.

12 questions · Easy, Medium and Hard

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Unit 3

Unit 3: Devices and language

Naming the technique is the easy half. The unit is really about saying what a device does to a reader, and why the writer chose that one.

12 questions · Easy, Medium and Hard

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Unit 4

Unit 4: Reading poetry

Why the line breaks where it does, what a stanza is for, how rhythm and sound carry meaning, and a method for a poem you have never seen before.

12 questions · Easy, Medium and Hard

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Unit 5

Unit 5: The personal response to texts

An assignment that looks open and is not: what the prompt is actually asking, how to choose a form you can control, and what the marker is looking for.

12 questions · Easy, Medium and Hard

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Unit 6

Unit 6: The critical and analytical essay

An argument about a text, supported from the text. Building a thesis worth proving, choosing and embedding evidence, and the conventions that keep it readable.

12 questions · Easy, Medium and Hard

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