Unit 3 of English — Paper I (syllabus: Module III — comprehension, precis and analysis; and the elements of oral communication for the lawyer). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.
What this unit covers
- What is the difference between analysis and summary, and what three axes must an analytical answer use?
- What is the real theme of The Cop and the Anthem, and why is it wrong to write only about irony?
- What is mock-heroic diction, and what two things happen at once in the story's ending?
- How does Murder! invert the detective story, and why is the reader made complicit?
- On the facts of Murder!, is the killing of Franting justified, and is there any legal category for it?
- What do the prescribed texts teach about formal speech, and what is the one rule every effective speaker on this paper obeys?
- What do the opening speeches and the improper questions in chapter 11 teach about advocacy?
- How do you destroy an expert witness, and what does the closing speech in chapter 13 actually consist of?
Treat that list as a self-test: recite each topic's rule from memory before you open its cases.
Provisions
- O. Henry, The Cop and the Anthem, s. the theme, and the six attempts
- O. Henry, The Cop and the Anthem, s. the language, and the ending
- Arnold Bennett, Murder!, s. the structure, the preface and the character contrast
- Arnold Bennett, Murder!, s. the gunsmith's shop and the billiard room
- A Time to Kill, chapter 11, s. the openings, the cross-examination of the mothers, and Deputy Looney
- A Time to Kill, chapter 13, s. the expert evidence and the closing argument