Identify three features of Cecily’s first reply, from her correction of Algernon to her description of her wicked cousin, and briefly explain what each suggests about her.

Identify three features of the exchange about Algernon’s business appointment, from his announcement of his Monday departure to Cecily’s request that he wait for Jack, and briefly explain their comic significance.

Identify three ways in which the dialogue about emigration, from Algernon’s surprise to his preference for this world, reveals his priorities. Quote the relevant words and briefly explain each.

Analyse how the exchange from Algernon’s denial of wickedness to Cecily’s comment that being bad must have been pleasant uses moral vocabulary to develop their flirtation.

Comment on how the spoken dialogue and Algernon’s physical reactions work together in the opening exchange, from his raised hat to his look of amazement.

Analyse how the final exchange, from Algernon’s request to be reformed to Cecily’s invitation indoors, changes the meaning of personal transformation.

To what extent does Cecily control the encounter? Evaluate the distribution of questions, corrections and concessions across the extract.

Evaluate how effectively the contrast between Algernon’s initial greeting and the final invitation unsettles conventional expectations of innocence and experience.

Discuss how the extract’s movement from wickedness, through emigration, to reform and food shapes the audience’s judgement of the identities the characters perform.

Identify three contradictions in the women’s conduct from the opening of the extract through Gwendolen’s first question to Jack, and briefly explain the comic effect of each. Quote the relevant words.

Identify three expressions in the women’s assessment of the men’s explanations that privilege persuasive presentation over truth, and briefly explain each.

Identify three expressions that exaggerate the difficulty of the men’s proposed christening, from the simultaneous announcement about their names to the final embraces, and briefly explain their effect.

Analyse how the stage action from the women’s position at the window to the men’s whistling creates a conflict between declared dignity and actual desire.

Analyse how the questioning of Algernon and Jack, from Cecily’s question about her guardian’s brother to Gwendolen’s decision to crush her doubts, turns an investigation into a collaboration.

Comment on the theatrical effect of coordinated speech, from Cecily’s proposal that the women speak together to the men’s announcement that they will be christened.

To what extent is the conflict about the Christian names more substantial than the conflict about deception? Evaluate how the dialogue moves between these two obstacles.

Evaluate how the final exchange, from the questions about christening to the embraces, uses gendered claims to resolve the confrontation.

Discuss how the movement from the attempted dignified silence to the concluding embraces shapes the audience’s response to the seriousness of the whole dispute.

Identify three expressions of uncertain perception in the opening exchange, from Montano’s first question to his question about what they will hear, and briefly explain each.

Identify three features of the Third Gentleman’s report, from his announcement that the wars are done to his account of Cassio’s sadness, and briefly explain how each changes the audience’s expectations.

Identify three expressions in Cassio’s speeches, from his entrance to his request for the arriving ship’s identity, that reveal his emotional investment in Othello’s safety. Briefly explain each.

Analyse how the Second Gentleman’s extended description of the storm, from the foaming shore to the disturbed flood, reveals his response to its power.

Analyse how Montano’s speech beginning with his prayer for Othello’s safety combines professional respect with anxious observation.

Comment on how Cassio’s final extended speech about Othello’s bride, and the interruption that follows it, reveal both confidence and dependence on further news.

To what extent do the speeches about Othello present loyalty as a source of reassurance rather than anxiety? Evaluate Montano’s and Cassio’s language across the extract.

Evaluate how the contrast between the descriptions of the storm and Cassio’s description of Othello’s bride shapes the audience’s understanding of the speakers’ responses to what exceeds ordinary description.

Discuss how the relationship between sustained speeches and brief questions, arrivals and offstage sounds reveals the limits of the speakers’ authority throughout the extract.

Identify three details in the opening action, from Eliza’s return with the slippers to Higgins’s reaction to them, and briefly explain what each suggests about their relationship.

Identify three expressions of dismissal in Higgins’s account of the evening and the preceding months, and briefly explain what each reveals about his attitude to the achievement.

Identify three details in Pickering’s speech beginning with his comment on social routine and ending with professional accomplishment, and briefly explain what each suggests about social status.

Analyse how Eliza’s two physical reactions, following Higgins’s thanks that the evening is over and his later anticipation of bed, create an emotional development without speech.

Comment on how the men’s bodily ease, from Higgins’s yawning and Pickering’s stretching to their movements towards departure, contrasts with Eliza’s presence.

Analyse how the final sequence, from Pickering’s declaration of triumph to Higgins’s instructions about lights and breakfast, gives the extract an ironic ending.

To what extent do Eliza’s silent actions challenge the men’s interpretation of the evening as a success? Evaluate the relationship between what the audience sees and what the men say.

Evaluate how the slippers, the piano and the final domestic instructions make the room a setting of unequal power rather than shared celebration.

Discuss how the contrast between the discussion of learned social performance and the men’s own behaviour shapes the audience’s judgement of who is behaving with understanding or refinement.

Identify three details in the opening stage direction and Higgins’s first three turns that establish the initial imbalance between the characters. Quote the relevant words and briefly explain each.

Identify three changes or qualifications in Eliza’s short replies, from her refusal of champagne to her statement about what Higgins need not worry about, and briefly explain each.

Identify three details of Higgins’s physical behaviour after Eliza asks what will become of her, and briefly explain the contrast each creates with her urgency.

Analyse how the opening sequence of Higgins’s questions and Eliza’s repeated refusals delays the disclosure of her actual concern.

Comment on the turning point from Higgins’s assurance that there is nothing more to worry about to Eliza’s retreat to the piano bench.

Analyse how the sequence from Higgins’s claim that Eliza is free to her questions about her future changes the direction and pace of the confrontation.

To what extent does Eliza gain control of the confrontation by the end of the extract? Evaluate the shift from Higgins’s opening questions to his final extended speech.

Evaluate how the changes in Higgins’s delivery and movement, from his lofty opening to his eating the apple, complicate the appearance that the confrontation is becoming more reasonable.

Discuss how the extract’s ending answers, or fails to answer, the problem introduced by Eliza’s questions about her future.

Identify three features of the exchange before Jack’s entrance that make suspense comic rather than wholly serious. Quote the relevant words and briefly explain each.

Identify three details in Miss Prism’s examination of the handbag and briefly explain how each redirects attention from Jack’s urgency to the object itself.

Identify three features of Jack’s response after Lady Bracknell identifies his family, and briefly explain how each makes the discovery theatrical.

Analyse how the exchange from Jack’s entrance with the handbag to Miss Prism’s complaint about its absence combines urgency with anticlimax.

Analyse how speech and opposing movements, from Jack’s claim to have been the baby to Miss Prism’s referral to Lady Bracknell, turn mistaken recognition into farce.

Comment on the effect of the tonal change from Jack’s repeated introductions of his brother to Algernon’s final understated reply.

To what extent does the extract invite the audience to share Jack’s emotional investment in discovering his identity? Evaluate the balance between suspense and comic deflation.

Evaluate how Jack’s speech about forgiveness, between Miss Prism’s declaration that she is unmarried and her correction of his mistake, combines moral seriousness with comic presumption.

Discuss how the opening paradoxes and the final exchange about brotherhood frame the recognition scene as a comedy of unreliable social meanings.