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Set Texts and Poetry

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  1. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, which character kills Tybalt?
  2. What is the main theme of Shakespeare's Macbeth?
  3. In A Christmas Carol, what causes Scrooge to change?
  4. In An Inspector Calls, what does the Inspector represent?
  5. In Of Mice and Men, why does George shoot Lennie?
  6. What is the term for a 14-line poem, often with a rhyme scheme?
  7. What does enjambment do in a poem?
  8. In a poem, what is the effect of repeating a key word?
  9. Which question should you ask when analysing the structure of a text?
  10. Which of these is a quotation embedded correctly in a sentence?
  11. In Romeo and Juliet, what is the Prologue's role?

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