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Characters’ responses to the supernatural
Extract 1 is Act One Scene One of My Mother Said I Never Should, where the four girls are playing on the wasteland and Jackie leads a séance. Extract 2 is from Ghost Night, where Consuela and Wendy are waiting for a ghost expert in a house they have heard is haunted when the lights go out.
Compare how characters’ responses to the supernatural are presented in these two extracts.
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- 1 Compares both drama extracts, responses to the supernatural, and dramatic/language methods.
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No fixed answer is provided by OCR. A strong answer would compare Jackie's playful summoning of spirits and the children's rising fear with Consuela and Wendy's panic, analysing stage directions, darkness, repetition and short exchanges.
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Feature spotting dramatic terms without explaining their effect.
The examiner report's general part a guidance says weaker responses often identified features such as punctuation or sound devices without meaningful analysis of effect.