essays for unseen poetry
- Created by: celmo
- Created on: 11-06-16 14:35
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- Essay techniques
- Introduction
- show you understand by focusing on a couple of things
- refer to techniques in general
- The use of 'literary techniques' = thought provoking
- use of a range of devices to convey subject-matter
- conclusion
- How succesful is poet in conveying themes?
- have they portrayed them effectively?
- are themes: unusual/diffi-cult/appealing/engaging?
- Does the use of structure or language help make a theme more accessible?
- has it challenged the way you think about it?
- paragraph plan
- (1) Verse form and sentence structure
- End-stopping
- enjambment
- Caesura
- sentence lengths/types
- are they long or short?
- Declarative (statment)
- interrogative (question)
- exclamatory (exclamation)
- imperative (command)
- syntactic patterning
- (2) diction and imagery
- how varied are the words? Long/short/simple etc.
- syntax - place importance on word - why might they do this?
- lexical field - words which all relate to common idea or theme
- repetition
- contrast- two opposing ideas placed near each other to highlight the difference
- Sound devices
- assonance/ consonance /sibilance/on-omatopoeia
- imagery
- simile = like/as
- metaphor = saying something is actually something else
- personification - objects are given human qualities
- (3) Rhyme scheme and metre
- Full rhyme / half rhyme /visual rhyme/internal rhyme
- iambic tetrameter - FOUR iambs/eight syllables
- iambic-pentameter - every line has FIVE iambs/TEN syllables
- (1) Verse form and sentence structure
- middle paragraphs
- always refer to subject -matter
- use the PEA structure
- Introduction
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