AS ENGLISH LITERATURE
1000 WORD ESSAY
AN EXAMPLE PARAGRAPH
Here is the worked paragraph we discussed in class yesterday. Bare in mind I’ve repeated a point in section 4 and 5 and I’ve added two rather than one point from 7 and 8. Normally you’d only make only one point from 7, 8, 9 or 10 in a paragraph.
FEATURE
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EXAMPLE
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1 Make a point
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Hughes seems to make the fox alive in The Thought Fox
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2 Expand on point
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One way he does this is to create movement in the poem. This is achieved by the use of verbs and adverbs.
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Introduce quote
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In the fifth stanza Hughes focuses on the eyes of an imagined fox and describes it as
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3 Evidence
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‘brilliantly, concentratedly’
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4 General point
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These pair of adverbs describing the movement of the eyes of a fox shows the fox to be full of life, alert and intelligent.
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5 Literary points
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The two adverbs are part of a detailed list describing the movement of the fox’s eye.
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6 Effect on reader
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This gives an immediacy and directness to the portrait of the fox. And this seems to make it appear alive. The list also enables a reader to have strong vivid series of impressions of the fox.
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7 Context point
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Hughes wrote this poem at a time when most people would not have encountered foxes as we do today. They would have been rare creatures to the majority of the population who lived in cities.
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8 Attitudes and values
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Hughes conveys his love and admiration of the natural world here by focussing in detail of this one feature of the foxes imagined head.
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9 Comparative point
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10 Other voices
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Hughes seems to make the fox alive in The Thought Fox. One way he does this is to create movement in the poem. This is achieved by the use of verbs and adverbs. In the fifth stanza Hughes focuses on the eyes of an imagined fox and describes it as ‘brilliantly, concentratedly’ These pair of adverbs describing the movement of the eyes of a fox shows the fox to be full of life, alert and intelligent. The two adverbs are part of a detailed list describing the movement of the fox’s eye. This gives an immediacy and directness to the portrait of the fox. And this seems to make it appear alive. The list also enables a reader to have strong vivid series of impressions of the fox. Hughes wrote this poem at a time when most people would not have encountered foxes as we do today. They would have been rare creatures to the majority of the population who lived in cities. Hughes conveys his love and admiration of the natural world by focussing in detail of this one feature of the foxes imagined head.
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