English Drama Quotes

Manutd_4life · 02-04-2014 07:08PM #1

Just a quick question. I personally hate studying and learning the quotes for my play Romeo and Juliet. Im pretty good at English and was just wondering how much marks would you get (lets say out of 15) if you wrote a perfect 'a grade answer' but had no quotes in your answer???

VG31 · 02-04-2014 07:21PM

Why throw away marks just because you couldn't be bothered learning quotes? You don't have to learn that many. Just being good at English isn't enough. You have to put in the work for learning off quotes and your answers (mostly for paper 2).

sopretty · 02-04-2014 07:26PM

You need to be able to back up your claims.

You can't just say 'Romeo was a randy bollix and Juliet was an awful tart', and just leave it at that.

You can however argue such a point, if you can back your assertion up by quotations from the actual text. You need to explain where you're getting your notions from.

Disclaimer: I have not read Romeo and Juliet.

Manutd_4life · 02-04-2014 07:31PM

VG31 wrote: »

Why throw away marks just because you couldn't be bothered learning quotes? You don't have to learn that many. Just being good at English isn't enough. You have to put in the work for learning off quotes and your answers (mostly for paper 2).

I never said i wasn't bothered to learn quotes, i said i just don't like to learn them especially with the fact that the english is obviously very old and different. I have quotes learned off but was just wondering how much marks could you get without them

Xgracie · 02-04-2014 07:34PM

My teacher refuses to teach us quotes

would say learning some from the key scene and some about a relationship in the play and the a few on the major characters be sufficent? (I'm doing The Merchant Of Venice) what about the novel?

VG31 · 02-04-2014 07:39PM

Manutd_4life wrote: »

I never said i wasn't bothered to learn quotes, i said i just don't like to learn them especially with the fact that the english is obviously very old and different. I have quotes learned off but was just wondering how much marks could you get without them

To be honest I'm not sure exactly how many marks you would lose without them, but when you make a point you must quote. The marking schemes say 'support answer with reference to the text' so you will lose a lot of marks. Not quoting for all of paper 2 would mean you have almost certainly lost an A.

I haven't studied a Shakespeare play myself but, I understand the language in them is complicated and harder to learn off (I have studied a Shakeaspeare Sonnet).

If I were you I'd learn off the quotes, unless you don't care if you don't do well. You also really need to learn off full answers and paragraphs, otherwise you will more than likely not finish paper 2.

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