Summary Pride and Prejudice detailed notes for grade 9 | Pearson Edexcel 2015

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE CHEAT SHEET
GCSE PEARSON EDEXCEL | ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 2015


TALK ABOUT THE READER/NOVEL


A)
FORM:

- Protagonist/antagonist/caricature/satirical figure/foil/humour
- Free indirect speech
- Omniscient narration/authorial voice
- Direct speech
- Dialogue
- Single-line paragraph


STRUCTURE:

- Long, multiclausal sentences
- Imperative, rhetorical question, exclamation
- Superlatives, intensifiers, possessive/personal pronouns
- Tense (conditional)
- Pace
- Textual dominance
- Perspective (1st/3rd person)
- Monosyllabic/polysyllabic words
- Asyndeton/polysyndeton
- Repetition
- Prolepsis
- Italics for emphasis
- Shift in focus
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LANGUAGE:

- Metaphor, personification, simile
- Semantic field
- Powerful, visceral, emotive, dynamic, forceful, assertive, definitive verb
- Imagery
- Juxtaposition/contrast
- Tricolon
- Symbolism
- Irony
- Theme
SOUND:

- Fricatives (‘f’)
- Sibilance (‘s’)
- Aspiratives (‘h’)
- Plosives (‘p’, ‘b’)

, - Consonance
- Alliteration


B)
POINT, EVIDENCE, EXPLANATION (how it makes the reader feel), ENGAGEMENT (personal response,
perhaps, I think), LINK (hence, thus)


INTRODUCTION: Quick flash, define the theme, context
CONCLUSION: Personal response, small conclusive point
BE PRECISE WITH YOUR TEXTUAL REFERENCES BY CONTEXTUALISING THEM (showing where
exactly in the play a quote is)


HOW IT’S SIGNIFICANT

- Synonyms for important: significant, critical, vital, crucial, pivotal, focal, central
- Augments a scene (tension, suspense, dramatic irony, turning point)
- First/last time its introduced
- Raises questions for the audience
- Provides insight into characters
- Character functions as a foil
- Propels plot
- Integral part of structure
- Exemplifies a theme


QUOTATIONS:
‘mixture of self-importance and humility’ Austen’s pen portait of Mr Collins
Elizabeth’s ‘dances of mortification’
Mr Collin’s catch phrase ‘humble abode’
Charlotte ‘wisely did not hear’
‘the death of your daughter would have been a blessing’ Mr Collin’s letter
‘he has a right to be proud’ Charlotte
‘happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance’ Charlotte
‘you would never act on it yourself’ Elizabeth
Charlotte ‘instantly set out to meet him accidentally in the lane’
Charlotte’s brothers were ‘relieved from their apprehension of Charlotte’s dying an old maid’
‘I’m not a romantic’ Charlotte
‘my dear Eliza he must be in love with you’ Charlotte
‘whatever he said, was said well; and whatever he did, done gracefully’ Mr Wickham
Wickham’s excuse was that he ‘had better not meet Mr Darcy
‘one has got all the goodness, the other all the appearance of it.’ Wickham and Darcy