What is close reading?
Close reading is when you really engage with a text and all of its connotations. It means that you need to look at what techniques, voice or person the author may be using but importantly it is not just spotting these. You must look at why the author has chosen to use these techniques. This should be at both the level of the passage you are analysing and at the level of the text as a whole. This is what the study of English is all about!
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Related English GCSE answers
All answers ▸How do you analyse a novel/short story?
In an Inspector calls, how does Eva smith represent the society of the time?
How do I comment on the voice of the author and why is this relevant?
Show how Mrs. Birling’s character is shown to be responsible not only for the death of Eva Smith but also the condemnation of the privileged classes in ‘An Inspector Calls’.