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Grades 9 and 10 - English Language - High School - Using Evidence from the Text
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When using evidence from the text to support any point you make, it's not good enough to make unsupported statements or assertions about a text. In order to convince your reader (a teacher or examiner), you will need to provide proof, often in the form of quotes.

Grades 9 and 10 - English Language - High School - Using Evidence from the Text
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1. Which of the following uses evidence from the text by paraphrasing?
2. The reference to Bluebeard in Heaney's poem, 'Blackberry-Picking', ironically ...... the reader to see blackberry juice as blood, and the boys as murderers.
3. Which of the following correctly embeds a quote from Seamus Heaney's poem, 'Blackberry-Picking'?
4. Which of the following correctly embeds a quote from Shenagh Pugh's poem, 'The Beautiful Lie'?
5. Which of the following does NOT correctly embed a quote?
6. Which of the following correctly introduces a quote from Norman MacCaig's poem, 'November Night, Edinburgh'?
7. 'I met a traveler from an antique land / Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, / And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, / Tell that its sculptor well those passions read' - From Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem, 'Ozymandias'. Which of the following does NOT use quotation marks correctly?
8. When writing an essay, in addition to providing quotes from the text, you should also...
9. Which of the following correctly embeds a quote?
10. McCaig's reference to lights which 'die into pits' ...... at a darker side to the city.

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