Two questions
1. Can I use a speech as a related text or is that frowned upon in comparison with other forms e.g. novels, films
2. How many quotes should I prepare per text as a minimum?
Thanks!
Hey there!
1. You can definitely use a speech
The medium is really interesting because it allows you to know the composer's really well. You learn of their political perspectives/agenda and the rhetorical devices they employ to convince you of that. I assume you're doing after the bomb (sorry if you're not), so you can look at how the political and personal intersect in a way that is unique from your other texts. I'm sure the speaker's biography is up online, so that's definitely worth exploring as a part of your analysis
I haven't personally chosen to study a speech, but believe that it has a lot of potential. Maybe someone on the forums who has used a speech as their related could share with you some more tips on how to best analyse it
2. I don't think you can name an arbitrary number of quotes and be certain that that will get you through the exam. I recommend learning quotes that will allow you to explore the full breath of the text and enough so that you can be comfortable knowing that you can answer any question. You can gauge whether you know the text well enough by doing practice questions or at least planning responses to them. Whilst your doing that, take note if you find yourself resorting to the same arguments/evidence or feel that you're being forced to manipulate your arguments in strange ways just to make them fit. That could be a sign that you need more evidence to explore ideas that will then allow you to be comfortable answering the question with a whole new set of evidence. But if you were actually looking for a number, depending on the size of the text, I learn around 15 quotes but this definitely increases with larger texts like novels/plays. I tend to have the least textual evidence for my films.
Hopefully this helped. I wasn't too sure what you were exactly looking for so let me know if you want more things clarified - these were fairly generalised answers