- Year 11
- Edexcel
Writing a comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poetry
I can write a confident and clear comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poems.
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- Year 11
- Edexcel
Writing a comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poetry
I can write a confident and clear comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poems.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- A comparative introduction should use correlatives and comparatives in order to create links between ideas.
- A comparative introduction might offer smaller variations in a wider similarity between poems.
- A comparative introduction might offer nuanced differences between poems.
- Effective analytical writing may include: active voice, tentative language, and explanation of ideas.
- Less successful analytical writing may include passive voice and repetition.
Keywords
Nuance - a very slight difference in appearance, meaning or sound
Transience - the state or fact of lasting only for a short time
Effective - successful in producing a desired or intended result
Generic - relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class of similar things
Tentative - writing in a way that shows you are not certain
Common misconception
That using tentative language makes your argument seem less convincing.
Using tentative language acknowledges that we are exploring poets' intentions and that there are many valid interpretations of a text.
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Equipment
You will need a copy of Michael Laskey’s ‘Nobody’ and Robin Robertson’s ‘Donegal’ which are available in the additional materials.
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