AS ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
INTEGRATED ANALYSIS AND TEXT PRODUCTION
TIMED WORK – FEEDBACK
Some general points – Production Task - Streetcar
Difficult juggling act you must refer to specific episodes in the play but you must avoid describing episodes in detail.
Difficult juggling act you must refer to specific episodes in the play but you must avoid describing episodes in detail.
· Key to this task is writing about how events reveal attitudes towards characters / events / topics
· Don’t just write about Stella’s attitudes and feelings but what can Stella say about Blanche’s feelings about Stanley or Mitch, Elysian Fields or Belle Reve
· Refer and reflect on other events in the play that have already taken place and that Stella has had first hand experience of
· Avoid Stella or the narrator feeling too confused, not knowing what to write or being too upset. These features only add context and won’t really give you any marks. To get good marks you need Stella to write fully and in detail.
· Stella - in this example – should cover a range of topics rather than just limiting her to just one. If she has a lot of topics to comment on then you don’t have to write a lot of detail about one or two topics.
o She should comment on Blanche / Stanley’s deteriorating relationship
o Comment on Stanley’s attitudes and specifically his mention of Shaw
o Blanche and Mitch’s developing - hopeful relationship
o Comment on Mitch as a suitable person for Blanche to marry
o Stella should comment on Blanche’s glossed over confession
Some general points – Analytical Task – Things Fall Apart
· Generally your answers show that you have a sound to good level of knowledge and understanding of the text. However you should select episodes widely across the novel and not limit yourself to writing about two or three standard episodes.
· The single most important factor that will improve your answers will be to use quotations to support the points you want to make, identify a key feature of language – either literary or linguistic and comment on the effect on a general reader.
Here are some examples from a number of students from this class
“the modifier ‘even’ suggests that Okonkwo doesn’t usually have feelings”
“the simile leads the reader leads the reader to thin…”
“Parched is an emotive adjective”
“The adverb ‘vividly’ suggests…”
“The adverb ‘slowly’………….”
“These adjectives display……….”
Make sure you comment on narrative perspective. This is a gift for Things Fall Apart. The novel employs a third person restricted narrator that adopts the narrative perspective of key characters throughout the novel. Therefore when you quote from the novel you should identify the narrative perspective of the quotation and comment on it in your comments about the quotation.
Make sure you comment on narrative perspective. This is a gift for Things Fall Apart. The novel employs a third person restricted narrator that adopts the narrative perspective of key characters throughout the novel. Therefore when you quote from the novel you should identify the narrative perspective of the quotation and comment on it in your comments about the quotation.
