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A-LevelEnglish LanguageText AnalysisMay/June 2016Paper 1 Q225 Marks

The following text is from Langston Hughes's autobiography The Big Sea (1940). In this extract he recalls journeying back to the United States from Africa with a pet monkey. Content removed due to copyright restrictions. It made him furious to have to get back in his cage, when it was time for me to go to work.

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About This A-Level English Language Question

This structured question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level English Language (9093) May/June 2016 examination, Paper 1 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Text Analysis and is worth 25 marks.

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