The last two exams I have left, and the most frightening! I'm doing Herodotus and Sophocles as set works and Thucydides and Euripides as unseens. Any advice for essay questions?
i'm VERY scared as well. lots of my translations at this stage still don't make sense. really hoping that by friday i'll be ok, but verse unseen can be close to fiendish at times. but since it is the first year of the new syllabus i hope they might not be too tough? or will it be the opposite?! to be honest i can't wait to just get it over with
The last two exams I have left, and the most frightening! I'm doing Herodotus and Sophocles as set works and Thucydides and Euripides as unseens. Any advice for essay questions?
That's the exact same as me. For the Sophocles, I guess it's just to know the play inside out. The passage essay shouldn't be too bad, but I'm dreading the whole-text one. It'll probably be a characterisation question.
Good luck today everyone I'll probably be on here later crying about the Euripides. Just remember for the whole text essay - show off your knowledge! Literally stick as much knowledge of the play in there as possible, that's what they said people didn't do very well last year, so it's what they'll be looking for when marking.
That unseen was no fun, although the translation was relatively okay compared to some of the comprehension bits
The Oedipus essays were nice, and my commentary went quite well, although I did write a page an a half on the first four lines, and two pages on the other 20 lines or so
Yeah, compared to Oedipus it's pretty dull :/ Not nearly enough incest or eye-gouging, although the actual language is a lot easier.
A lot of the commentary is technique I find, we've been told to focus a lot on characterisation.
If the section about the Persian messengers comes up I will probably murder someone, there is nothing to write about! I'm hoping we get the section where Themistocles is trying to persuade Euribiades not to go to the Isthmus - that's really good for style.
I feel all alone with my Plato... in which I am hoping that for the philosophy question they ask something thronging with literary devices. Unfortunately, seeing as it is Plato, this is unlikely.
If the section about the Persian messengers comes up I will probably murder someone, there is nothing to write about! I'm hoping we get the section where Themistocles is trying to persuade Euribiades not to go to the Isthmus - that's really good for style.
I think that it'll be one of the speeches, that't the easiest thing to talk about. Mnesiphilus' would be good too, or maybe some of the battle scenes with Xerxes? Greeks vs. Persians is sooooo easy to talk about.