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The Merchant's Tale extract analysis

How do you structure an essay for the extract analysis question of The Merchant's Tale exam?

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I'm assuming you are referring to the OCR exam? I've enclosed an essay that I originally did written and timed in class, it managed to get 27/30. My teacher mentioned that I had a lack of examples in my verse form paragraph. You can definitely see I lose stamina after the language paragraphs and I didn't manage to do two separate paragraphs for imagery.

I was told to set my essay like so:

Intro

Paragraph on language in the extract
Paragraph justifying how this is characteristic of the rest of the Tale (finding links between the extract and the Tale)

Paragraph on imagery in the extract
Paragraph linking imagery to the rest of the tale

Paragraph on verse form (both in the extract and if possible elsewhere in the Tale)

Conclusion

The Merchant's Tale (Januarie and May) .pdf66.5KB