How To Answer

Long Question
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Here’s what we will discuss in this session:

1. The format of long question

2. How to write answer of the long question?
3. Questions from “The Tale-Tale Heart” for long question answer.
4. Justify the title “The Tale-Tale Heart”
5. What made the narrator confess his crime? What is the reality of the ‘ dull, low ,quick’
sound?
6. Do you think the narrator is mad? Give reason for your answer.

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Types of
Questions
Short Question Answer
Five questions carrying 3
marks each
There will be seven questions
Out of which, you have to
attend any five questions
Long Question Answer
One question carrying 10 mark
There will be two questions
Out of which, you have to write
for any one question
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Format of long
Question
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Format of Long
question

Maintain at least 4 paragraphs

It is also 1 -2-1 paragraphs

Intro
Body

Body
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Introduction
Mention The Text
 State Who The Writer Or Author Is
And In Which Context The Text Is Created
What Is The Basic Theme Of The Text
You Can Find The Basic Theme In Head
Notes In Most Of The Text.

Address The Question Asked

Now lets put our principle into practice
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Sample
Question I Introduction
Arthor- Edgar Allan
poe
Text- The Tell-Tale
Would you call Heart
Theme- crime and
the narrator
Confession
mad? Give Address the question
reasons for your Asked
answer.

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Sample Answer I
 The “Tale-Tale Heart” by Allan Edgar Poe
is a story where he presents a psychotic
killer as a narrator.
 In this story ,Poe makes his narrator
unfold in minute details the many folds of
a mystery and lead his readers to the shock
of the end.
 The narrator’s plan for killing of his
master,
 his act of killing his master 
 and his sudden confession towards the end
of story
 are surprising element to the readers and
gothic in style in particular.
 Ultimately, the narrator interprets in
hearing a thumping sound as the dead
man's beating heart
 proving him to be a mad man.

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Sample
Question II Introduction
Arthor-W.B Yeats
Text-Purgatory
Theme- crime and
What is the Confession
Address the question
main theme of
Asked
the play
“Purgatory”.

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Sample Answer II
● “Purgatory” by W.B Yeats is a play
revolves around the soul of the old
man's mother who is wandering at
purgatory as a result of a crime she
has committed when she was alive
● He places the old man as a narrator
who speaks for his thoughts
● and thinks that her crime seems to be
sterilized when he kills his own son.
● Through the old man’s failure to save
his mother from her repeated pain of
purgatory and his consequent
helplessness, Yeats reveals the theme
of ‘life in death’ and ‘the death in life’
● Such religious theme is even
suggested by the title “purgatory”,
which is a prominent belief of
Christianity

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 Body Body
Begin your answer hitting Better to ennumerate
at the head of the question reasons with first, secondly
etc.

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 Sample answe ● You can explain here what answer
for body part I is demanded

● Begin your answer hitting at the

head of the question
● Make a claim or point, or
Arguement
● Cite supporting details from text.

● Elaborate your arguement

● Make an inference to justify your

claim
● Repeat the same process for other
body as well

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 Hitting
at
head:
Your
Topic
Sentences

● By analyzing the Attitude, Behavior and

Character of the narrator, one can wrap
up that he is a mad one.

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 Develop Your Arguement
● Make points to justify your argument
● Take for example the two claims of the narrator.
● He claims that he is not a mad man
● He claims that he has an acute sense of hearing
● Now develop you argument to prove the narrator mad
from these point
● And write a solid sentence
● First, he claims that he has an acute sense of hearing.
● So he can hear the sound from Heaven , Hell or Earth.
● Normal one doesn’t claim but the narrator does .
● That’s why he is a mad one.
● Secondly, he argues that he is not mad, right from the
beginning till the end of the story.
● But the more he claims not to be mad the more he
appears to be mad in the eyes of The Reader.
● It is because a normal man doesn’t claim that either he is
normal or abnormal
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 Cite supporting details from
text
● Passion there was none.
● I loved the old man.
● He had never wronged me.
● He had never given me insult.
● For his gold I had no desire.
● I think it was his eye!
● yes, it was this! One of his eyes
resembled that of a vulture—a pale blue
eye,
● Thirdly, he does not have any solid motive for
killing.
● He himself has said that he loves the old man
as the old man neither wronged him nor
insulted.
● He does not have a passion to kill the old man
nor does he desire for gold either.
● Then why he wants to murder him?
● The cause for murder is the A Pale Blue
Vulture Eye.
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Make an inference to
justify your claim

● For such immaterial reason, only a mad man

can plan to murder.
● So he is a mad man.

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Conclusion
Exam
t
conten

definition lenght
It is to say what is said Better to make 3 to 5 lines
paragraph

sentences Why
Try to conclude using It exhibits your sincerity
maximum 3 sentences

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Sample
conclusion I for

Would you call

the narrator a
mad man? Give
reasons.

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Conclusion
Hence, by observing his attitude ,behaviour
and character,the cause for murder, the
planning of murder, the execution of plan we
can say that he is not a normal man.

 The brutality he has exhibited to dismental

the corpse and the relaxation he enjoyed after
murder is certainly a case of abnormal one.

 And finallyt The sudden confession of his

crime infront of the officer confirms him to
be a mad man.

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Sample
conclusion II
for

What is the
main theme of
the play
“Purgatory”.

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Conclusion
Hence, Yeats puts forward the message of
Bible which states that a sinner is denied a
place in Heaven

. After committing the crime, Yeats citing

the concept of purgatory views that one has
to go through suffering and misery before
getting the purification .

So, the play advocates that punishment is

necessary for renewal and growth dwelling
upon ‘life and death theme’.

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Conclusion
Hence, Yeats puts forward the message of
Bible which states that a sinner is denied a
place in Heaven

. After committing the crime, Yeats citing

the concept of purgatory views that one has
to go through suffering and misery before
getting the purification .

So, the play advocates that punishment is

necessary for renewal and growth dwelling
upon ‘life and death theme’.

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