Yellow are medium priority (revision is important)

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

Tone and Voice

Structure and Form

Symbolism

Verse types

Stanzas

Rhyming Couplets

Quarterlings (ABAB)

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

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)

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

“This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine”

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

The colonized are demonized and viewed as barbaric

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

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)

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

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

Read all the questions

Do the Q3 first

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

Check my work

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)

Provide specific examples to support why its for this audience

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

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)

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

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

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.

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

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