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Unit 3: Longer Fiction or Drama I

7 dot points across 7 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do the details of a longer work reveal a character's perspective and motives across hundreds of pages, not just one scene?

How does the central conflict of a whole work, external or internal, generate its meaning?

Why does it matter whether a character changes or stays the same across a whole work?

How do you select evidence from a whole work and write commentary that ties it to a line of reasoning?

How does the social, cultural, and historical setting of a longer work carry the values the work explores?

How does a single key event, or a set of related events, function in the larger design of a whole work?

How do you turn a reading of a whole work into a thesis that establishes a line of reasoning?