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Use these essay questions as writing and critical thinking exercises for all levels of writers, and to build their literary analysis skills by requiring textual references throughout the essay.
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Scaffolded Essay Questions
Student Prompt: Write a short (1-3 paragraph) response using one of the bulleted outlines below. Cite details from the text over the course of your response that serve as examples and support.
1. Analyze the theme of marriage in the play.
2. Consider Jack’s double identity as Ernest in the context of a play where identity is always shifting.
By Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband
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A Woman of No Importance
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De Profundis
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Lady Windermere's Fan
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
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Salome
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The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
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The Canterville Ghost
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The Decay of Lying
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The Nightingale and the Rose
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Selfish Giant
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The Soul of Man Under Socialism
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