Great Expectations

  

YOUR TASK:

  

is to write an essay showing that you understand HOW Dickens writes, particularly the dramatic devices and structures (i.e. the techniques and tricks) he uses to affect you, the reader, including:

●   setting

●   characterisation

●   mood

●   'voice'

●   vocabulary

  

 

 

PREPARATION

To write this assignment, you will first need to research/ learn about the following:

●   the story of the book

●   what is the question?

●   how Dickens writes

●   Pip

●   Magwitch

●   (optional) Miss Havisham

  

 

 

 

 

 

●  Click for help with facts and ideas about the book

WRITING THE ASSIGNMENT

 

How does Dickens create sympathy for his characters in Great Expectations?  

Focus on Pip and [two] other characters you have studied.

  

  

●   Click here to see a possible writing frame for the assignment.

●   There is a really clear PowerPoint display, about how to write the essay, here (ppt./ swf).

 

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