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Pride and Prejudice - Illustrating and Supporting Points

This GCSE English Literature quiz helps you practise using short quotations from Pride and Prejudice to illustrate and support analytical points about characters, themes and relationships.

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Fascinating Fact:

Lady Catherine’s command “I am most seriously displeased” can be quoted to support analysis of authority, class arrogance, and attempted control.

In GCSE English Literature, you are expected to use brief, well chosen quotations from Pride and Prejudice to illustrate and support your points about characters, context and Austen’s narrative methods.

Key Terms

Textual evidence: Short quotations or details from the novel that back up your ideas.
Embedded quotation: A quotation built smoothly into your own sentence rather than standing alone.
Analysis: Explaining how a quotation shows something about character, theme, language or context.

Frequently Asked Questions (Click to see answers)

How can I use Lady Catherine’s dialogue to support a point?

You can quote Lady Catherine’s lines, such as “I am most seriously displeased,” to support points about her class arrogance, bullying manner and the pressure she tries to place on Elizabeth and Darcy.

What other characters are useful for illustrating class and power in the novel?

You might quote Mr Darcy at the Meryton ball, Mr Collins flattering Lady Catherine, or Mrs Bennet boasting about marriages. Each quotation can support points about social status and power.

How many quotations should I use in a GCSE Pride and Prejudice paragraph?

A typical GCSE paragraph usually needs two or three short, well embedded quotations. Each quotation should be followed by clear analysis explaining how it supports your main point about the novel.

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Read the text from Pride and Prejudice and then choose the answer which best uses evidence in support of a point. Remember that the answer will also need to be grammatically correct.

1 .

"She perfectly remembered every thing that had passed in conversation between Wickham and herself, in their first evening at Mr Philip's. Many of his expressions were still fresh in her memory. She was now struck with the impropriety of such communications to a stranger, and wondered that it had escaped her before. She saw the indelicacy of putting himself forward as he had done, and the inconsistency of his professions with his conduct"

Recollecting Mr Wickham's past behaviour leads Elizabeth to question her own willingness to believe him

Recalling Mr Wickham's behaviour during their first meeting, Elizabeth realises the "impropriety" and "indelicacy" of his conversation

Reflecting on the "impropriety" of Mr Wickham's behaviour leads Elizabeth to question her own willingness to trust him, as she "wondered how it had escaped her before"

All of the above

There are a number of correct methods to use when you quote from a text. Practise making your point in several different ways

2 .

"One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty"

Elizabeth changes her view: her cherished ability to be witty now appears to her to be continually abusive

Elizabeth changes her view: her cherished ability to be "witty" now appears to her to be "continually abusive"

Elizabeth changes her view: her cherished ability to be "witty" now appears to her to be continually abusive

Elizabeth changes her view: her cherished "ability to be witty" now appears to her to be "continually abusive"

Here it is important to quote "witty" because of the sharp contrast to Elizabeth's description of herself as "continually abusive"

3 .

"But I can assure the young ladies that I come prepared to admire them. At present I will not say more, but perhaps when we are better acquainted -"

Mr Collins drops heavy-handed hints about his intentions to marry one of the young ladies he has come prepared to admire

Mr Collins drops heavy-handed hints about his intentions to marry one of the "young ladies he has come prepared to admire"

Mr Collins drops heavy-handed hints in referring to his ready admiration for his cousins and in his promise to become "better acquainted"

Mr Collins drops heavy-handed hints in referring to his ready "admiration" for his cousins and in his promise to become "better acquainted"

Remember to quote accurately. The final answer is not accurate in quoting "admiration" where the text has "admire"

4 .

"'You may depend upon it, Madam,' said Miss Bingley, with cold civility, 'that Miss Bennet shall receive every possible attention while she remains with us'"

The juxtaposition of "cold" and "civility" inform the reader that Miss Bingley is being hospitable out of duty rather than warm feeling for Jane

The juxtaposition of cold and civility inform the reader that Miss Bingley is being hospitable out of duty rather than warm feeling for Jane

Miss Bingley does not intend her cold civility to be understood as kindness

"Miss Bingley" does not intend her "cold civility" to be understood as kindness

Sometimes quoting single words can be an effective way to make a point

5 .

"They knew that she had not prudence enough to hold her tongue before the servants, while they waited at table, and judged it better that one only of the household, and the one whom they could most trust, should comprehend all her fears and solicitude on the subject"

The Bennet family's fear of the gossip of their "servants" is evident in their worry that Mrs Bennet is unable to hold her tongue

The Bennet family's fear of the gossip of their "servants" is evident in their worry that Mrs Bennet is unable to "hold her tongue"

The Bennet family's fear of the gossip of their servants is evident in their worry that Mrs Bennet is unable to hold her tongue

The Bennet family's fear of the gossip of their servants is evident in their worry that Mrs Bennet is unable to "hold her tongue"

It is unnecessary to place "servants" in quotation marks because the use of this ordinary word is not relevant to the point being made

6 .

"You shall not defend her, though it is Charlotte Lucas. You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger, security for happiness"

For Elizabeth, "principle and integrity" should not be sacrificed for affectionate feelings towards a friend

For Elizabeth, principle and integrity should not be sacrificed for affectionate feelings towards a friend

Elizabeth believes that Charlotte's behaviour shows that she is "insensible of danger"

Elizabeth believes that Charlotte's behaviour shows an insensibility to danger

Any phrase which is used exactly as it appears in the text must have quotation marks around it

7 .

"I have no pleasure in talking to undutiful children. - Not that I have much pleasure indeed in talking to any body. People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking. Nobody can tell what I suffer!"

Mrs Bennet claims she has no great inclination for talking, even as she continues to speak

Mrs Bennet claims "she has not much pleasure indeed in talking to any body", even as she continues to speak

The repetition of the word talking in Mrs Bennet's long speech becomes ironic because she insists she does not enjoy it, even as she continues speaking

The repetition of the word "talking" in Mrs Bennet's long speech becomes ironic because she insists she does not enjoy it, even as she continues speaking

You can use the repetition of a particular word in a text to make a good point

8 .

"'That is the most unforgiving speech,' said Elizabeth, 'that I ever heard you utter. Good girl!'"

Elizabeth praises her sister for being unforgiving and a good girl

Elizabeth approves of Jane being "unforgiving" towards the Bingley sisters

Elizabeth congratulates her sister for "the most unforgiving speech that I ever heard you utter"

Elizabeth calls her sister "good girl" for the most unforgiving speech she ever heard her utter

Ensure quotations are exact

9 .

"Oh! - you mean Jane, I suppose - because he danced with her twice. To be sure that did seem as if he admired her - indeed I rather believe he did - I heard something about it - but I hardly know what - something about Mr Robinson"

Mrs Bennet boasts to Charlotte because Mr Bingley "danced with Jane twice"

Mrs Bennet boasts to Charlotte because Mr Bingley "danced with her twice"

Mrs Bennet's frequent hesitations when talking to Charlotte do not disguise the fact that she is boasting about Jane

"Mrs Bennet's" frequent hesitations when talking to "Charlotte" do not disguise the fact that she is boasting about "Jane"

Paraphrasing is especially useful when you want to condense a long sentence for analysis, or, as here, where you also wish to make a point about the punctuation. The second answer is not correct because it implies that Mr Bingley danced twice either with Charlotte or with Mrs Bennet herself

10 .

"Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!"

Mrs Bennet's assumptions are evident when she assures her husband that the arrival of Mr Bingley in the neighbourhood is a 'fine thing' for their daughters

Mrs Bennet's assumptions are evident when she assures her husband that the arrival of Mr Bingley in the neighbourhood is a 'fine thing for their daughters'

Mrs Bennet's assumptions are evident when she assures her husband that the arrival of Mr Bingley in the neighbourhood is a fine thing for their daughters

Mrs Bennet's assumptions are evident when she assures her husband that the arrival of Mr Bingley in the neighbourhood is a 'fine thing for our girls'

Remember to make your sentence grammatically correct. Here, the final answer is incorrect because it mentions Mrs Bennet in the third person, making the first person plural "our" ungrammatical

Author: Sheri Smith (PhD English Literature, English Teacher & Quiz Writer)