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“Throwing out the window” “Went South” “A lot” are all too informal to ever be used in the bac

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10 syllables, stressed/unstressed in 5 pairs, imitating a heartbeat (ba-bum. ba-bum, ba-bum. ba-bum, ba-bum)

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Context is key, refer to it WHENEVER you can and when its appropriate

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Make a strong thesis, along with a concise argument

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Red are high priority topics (revise ASAP)

Yellow are medium priority (revision is important)

Green are low priority (no need to revise as hard)

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Imagery

Tone and Voice

Structure and Form

Symbolism

Verse types

Stanzas

Rhyming Couplets

Quarterlings (ABAB)

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Instead of being a generalist, analyse specific features and poetic features (see dictionary)

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My handwriting and keeping my hand from hurting

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My handwriting and keeping my hand from hurting

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Not every poem is about something simple and mundane, I have to find bigger things in the bac poems. “A pet dying” is laughably basic

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Find the purpose of the text and audience

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Find the purpose of the text and audience

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IE (purpose): is this meant to make me agree with the author, make me not like a specific object

IE (audience): what kind of person is meant to read this? people with context? without context?

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Introduction (change is a key part of literature, illuminating how people and the world around them evolves)

First set of paragraphs (Tess: Power imbalance between genders moulds Tess and causes her to change)

Second set of paragraphs (Tempest: Change is a road to freedom, its rooted in the shift of power, Caliban is a native of the island whos subjugated by Prospero’s imperial control)

Conclusion (Transformative power, face of adversity and shifting power dynamics)

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All characters undergo change, due to the external forces thrust upon them.

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“You Temptress, Tess; you dear damned Temptress” - Chapter 47

“Why had she not known that these things make a difference” - Chapter 12

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"The woman I have been loving is not you." - Chapter 35

"O Tess! forgive me… for my wicked, selfish judgment!" -Chapter 45

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"You taught me language; and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse." - Act 1 Scene 2

"I'll be wise hearafter, and seek of grace" -Act 5, Scene 1

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Comparing the hero's journey between books

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Comparing the hero's journey between books

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Patriarchal structures result in oppression of women

Female characters are judged more harshly than male ones

"Purity" is a socially constructed weapon

Women are either angelic or demonic, no room for nuance

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Colonizers strip the identity of those colonized and impose their values

The colonized are demonized and viewed as barbaric

Resistance is symbolic (literal symbolism), physical (war) or emotional (protests)

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“We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep”

“This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine”

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Victorian England (mid to late 19th century)

Industrialisation (destroying villages like Tess's)

Purity Culture (virginity is all that matters, not even if the person is a victim)

Double Standards (Alec is not condemned for not being a virgin)

Patriarchy (Alec and Angel hold more power than Tess, her self control is constantly taken from her)

Hardy's Feminism (Hardy was a rare feminist in the 19th century, the book was even banned for a long time as a result of its feminism)

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Jacobean England (1603-1625)

Colonialism (Europeans were colonising large parts of the world, Prospero is a surrogate for them in the story)

Hierarchy: Prospero is an absolute ruler, controlling the island, his daughter and his servants (Ariel and Caliban)

Colonial Allegory (Caliban and Ariel are enslaved natives, Prospero is a colonizer)

Renaissance interest in magic and alchemy

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Free verse: no regular rhyme scheme and no rhythm

Blank Verse: Regular rhythm, no regular rhyme scheme. Generally Iambic Pentameter. Present in a lot of Shakespeare's work

Rhymed Verse: a normal poem, obvious rhythm and rhyme scheme

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Quotes first

Read all the questions

Do the Q3 first

Do the other 2 questions based on difficulty (more difficult first)

Check my work

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Introduction (Context, Important themes , What stands out

Overview (Text type, function, purpose, theme, genre…)

Zoom in 1 (Zoom in on a key word or phrase, state the technique and stylistic feature, explain the effect of this tech/feature)

Zoom in 2 (Repeat from 1)

Zoom in 3 (Repeat from 1)

Conclusion (Important themes, structural aspects, contextual points. What stands out, if it makes sense how the author’s views still apply now)

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Effect of the features on the target audience

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Effect of the features on the target audience

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How these features contribute or even detract from the persuasive ability of this text (if applicable)

Provide specific examples to support why its for this audience

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Metaphor (figure of speech that compares unrelated things)

Enjambment (sentence runs from one line to the next without pause)

Foreshadowing (self explanatory)

Pathetic Fallacy (emotions given to inanimate objects)

Irony (self explanatory)

Juxtaposition (contrasting ideas side by side)

Caesura (Pausing in a poetic line, marked by punctuation)

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Find specific linguistic features and explain their intended effect on the audience (see dictionary)

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Summarising texts instead of making a real point

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Summarising texts instead of making a real point

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I shouldn’t just rehash Tempest, I should actually talk about the book

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Use quotes to show selected features from both poems

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Use quotes to show selected features from both poems

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Describe the effects the quotes give (IE: invoke emotion, describe something)

State subtext (IE: twilight can be like the twilight years of a human's life)

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Imagery (Figurative Language, Sensory Imagery, Symbolism, Recurring motifs)

Structure & Form (Stanza structure, shift in rhyme schemes)

Tone and Voice (Emotional words, Speaker's function in the text, Perspective of the text)

Themes and Meaning (Nature, time, love, identity, conflict, memory. The development of a theme

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Compare and contrast the use and effect of the features

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Compare and contrast the use and effect of the features

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Relate the comparative focus with the theme of the poems

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Stanza: A grouped set of lines within a poem

Verse: A single line of poetry

Rhyming Couplet: Two consecutive lines of verse, always rhyming

Caesura: A pause or break in the middle of a line of verse

Enjambment: A sentence that continues despite a line break

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Alliteration: The repetition of starting consonant sounds in adjacent words.

Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds within adjacent words.

Consonance: The repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of adjacent words.

Onomatopoeia: Words that imitate the natural sounds of something.

Cacophony: Harsh, discordant sounds in writing.

Euphony: Pleasing, harmonious sounds in writing.