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Using Evidence from the Text

Evidence proves your ideas. Learn how to select, embed, and explain quotations and details so your analysis is clear, precise, and persuasive.

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Fascinating Fact:

Character action is evidence. She “folds the letter,” which signals decision more than dialogue does.

In GCSE English, you support interpretations by selecting precise evidence from the text. This includes quotations, actions, stage directions, patterns, and structural choices. Explain how each detail develops meaning and why it convinces your reader.

Key Terms

Evidence: Specific words, actions, or features from a text used to support a point.
Embedding: Fitting short quotation or detail smoothly into your own sentence.
Inference: A logical conclusion drawn from hints or implications in the text.

Frequently Asked Questions (Click to see answers)

What counts as evidence besides direct quotations?

As well as quotations, you can use actions, narrative viewpoint, stage directions, punctuation, imagery, and structural choices such as contrasts or repetitions as evidence.

How do I embed quotes effectively in GCSE English?

Keep quotations short and integrate them grammatically into your sentence. Follow with clear analysis that explains how the words support your point.

How much analysis should follow a piece of evidence?

Provide enough explanation to show how the evidence proves your idea. Aim for at least one precise comment on language and one on effect or meaning.

Try These Related Quizzes

1 .

Which of the following correctly embeds a quote from Shenagh Pugh's poem, 'The Beautiful Lie'?

'The new sense, the possible': this refers to lying

The narrator views the boy's first awareness of lying as an awakening to 'the new sense, the possible'

The narrator watches as a new world opens up to the boy: 'the new sense, the possible'

The boy learns about the opportunities available to him when lies become possible

A correctly-embedded quote will merge seamlessly into your own sentence. If you write a full sentence, then place a colon followed by your quote, you are introducing the quote rather than embedding it

2 .

Which of the following correctly embeds a quote from Seamus Heaney's poem, 'Blackberry-Picking'?

The hoarded blackberries rot, 'a fur, a rat-grey fungus' spoiling them and causing disappointment

A fur, a rat-grey fungus spoils the berries, disappointing the narrator yearly in his youth

Every year, the narrator was disappointed by the fungus which grew on his hoarded berries

The narrator expresses his sense of disappointment: 'a fur, a rat-grey fungus'

3 .

Which of the following correctly introduces a quote from Norman MacCaig's poem, 'November Night, Edinburgh'?

In his first line, MacCaig evokes a sense of celebration. 'The night tinkles like ice in glasses'

The night tinkles likes ice in glasses: in this line, MacCaig evokes a sense of celebration

In his first line, MacCaig evokes a sense of celebration: 'The night tinkles like ice in glasses'

In his first line, the night tinkles like ice in glasses, MacCaig evokes a sense of celebration

To introduce a short quote, end your sentence with a colon and remember to place quotation marks around the quote

4 .

McCaig's reference to lights which 'die into pits' ...... at a darker side to the city.

hints

invites

compares

indicates

5 .

Which of the following does NOT correctly embed a quote?

'A fur, a rat-grey fungus' grows on the berries, devouring them as a pest would

Despite 'a fur, a rat-grey fungus' devouring the berries each year, the boy never stopped his hoarding

Describing a mould as 'a fur, a rat-grey fungus' makes the reader imagine it as a pest, like a rat

The poet writes 'a fur, a rat-grey fungus' meaning mould

6 .

Which of the following uses evidence from the text by paraphrasing?

'The new sense, the possible': this refers to lying

The narrator views the boy's first awareness of lying as an awakening to 'the new sense, the possible'

The narrator watches as a new world opens up to the boy: 'the new sense, the possible'

The boy learns about the opportunities available to him when lies become possible

For more practice with paraphrasing as a method of using evidence from the text, try our Paraphrasing quiz

7 .

'I met a traveller from an antique land / Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, / And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, / Tell that its sculptor well those passions read' - From Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem, 'Ozymandias'. Which of the following does NOT use quotation marks correctly?

Although the statue's face has been destroyed, his 'frown' and 'sneer' survive intact

Ozymandias's 'sneer of cold command' is one of the few surviving features of his 'shattered visage'

Ozymandias surveys his lost kingdom with a 'sneer' of cold command

Despite his 'shattered visage', Ozymandias's 'frown' and 'sneer of cold command' survive

'Sneer of cold command' is the phrase quoted from the poem, so the quotation marks must go around the entire phrase

8 .

Which of the following correctly embeds a quote?

'Tinkles like ice in glasses': this repeats an 's' sound, reinforcing the crisp, frosty imagery

The repetition of the 's' sound in 'tinkles like ice in glasses' reinforces the crisp, frosty imagery

The crisp, frosty imagery is reinforced by the 's' sound in tinkles like ice in glasses

The repetition of the 's' sound in the first line reinforces the crisp, frosty imagery

'Embedding' a quote means that it appears naturally in the middle of your own sentence (with quotation marks, of course)

9 .

The reference to Bluebeard in Heaney's poem, 'Blackberry-Picking', ironically ...... the reader to see blackberry juice as blood, and the boys as murderers.

hints

invites

compares

indicates

10 .

When writing an essay, in addition to providing quotes from the text, you should also...

tell the examiner when you read the text

provide quotes from friends

make a point of your own and explain how the quote supports your point

write several paragraphs about how the text makes you feel

Many teachers refer to this as P.E.E. (point, evidence, explain)

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