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What is the difference between core and comparative texts?

Both core and comparative texts may be used throughout your course of study. Though it may seem that the differences are few and possibly inconsequential they are there for a reason.

Core texts are...

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Answered by Olivia N. English tutor
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Explore the construction of self-narratives in A Streetcar Named Desire, Othello and Mrs. Dalloway.

In all three texts, the construction of self-narratives is an instrumental part of the storytelling process. This building of one’s own narrative is shown to lead to an attribute of self-fashionin...

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Answered by Serena V. English tutor
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How do you site a text?

You can either quote a direct piece of the text in "" and say what passage of what book it is from. 

Or you can paraphrase what is being said in a passage of a text and specify what part ...

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Answered by Alice L. English tutor
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What is an Oxymoron?

An Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. 

ex. "heavy lightness" from Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare 

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Answered by Alice L. English tutor
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How can the target audience be identified in a text?

Identifying the target audience within a text is essential when trying to analyse one, therefore it is important to learn the ways in which it can be found. The format of a piece of writing is the first a...

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Answered by Flavia M. English tutor
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