How to Study and Revise a Literature Text (3) - Quotations and Analysis

This series of posts has been designed to help anyone studying literature.  As an English tutor, I'm often asked to helped students improve their grades.  You can read the first two posts in the series by following these links: how to get an overview, and looking at characters,

The most important level of detail is looking at actual quotations in a text, and analysing the effects of the language and other linguistic techniques.

Once you have a list of quotations about a character, for example, look carefully at how the writer has carefully chosen the words they say.

Previous posts have explored characters like Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Desdemona in Othello.

Why does Lady Macbeth say the shocking line "Out damned spot!" for example?  

And why does Shakespeare use alliteration when Brabantio, Desdemona's father, says of her that she could never "fall in love with what she fear'd to look on"?

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