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Comparative Study and Critical Appreciation

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  1. In the Leaving Certificate Comparative Study, what does the mode 'General Vision and Viewpoint' evaluate?
  2. In comparative analysis, the mode 'Theme or Issue' primarily requires students to:
  3. What is the defining characteristic of an 'unreliable narrator' in prose fiction?
  4. Choose the term for an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its contrary (e.g., "not a bad performance"):
  5. Which Irish poet famously penned the lines: "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, / And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made..."?
  6. Seamus Heaney's poem 'Digging' draws an extended metaphorical comparison between:
  7. In literary studies, what does 'motif' refer to?
  8. What is 'pathetic fallacy' in literary analysis?
  9. Identify the meter commonly employed in Shakespearean blank verse:
  10. In essay composition, what is the role of a 'topic sentence' at the head of a paragraph?
  11. Choose the word closest in meaning to 'ephemeral':
  12. What comparative term denotes the social, cultural, and political world in which characters live and navigate their choices?

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