A2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
ELLA 3 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND TEXT PRODUCTION
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS – SOME BASICS
In your commentary you should
address the three key features of each text. Your introduction is an
opportunity to summarise and address these three features. In the main body of
the commentary you will continue to address these features but as comments on
the quotations you use to support your ideas
FEATURE
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DETAIL
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COMMENT
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EXAMPLE
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Audience
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Who is the
target audience?
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For
example: public, private, general, exclusive
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Purpose
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Primary
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What is
the dominating purpose of the text? Be general
But also
be specific
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For example:
inform, question, instruct, exclaim
For
example: advise, order, proclaim,
interrogate
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Secondary
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All texts
have more than one purpose. Identify a secondary general purpose and then be
specific.
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See above
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Genre
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Writing
style
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Identify
the different genres of writing within each text e.g. transcript of
spontaneous speech, novel, non-fiction text
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For
example: descriptive, dialogue, narrative, anecdotal
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Writing
technique
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Identify
the different language and literary features used in each text. Ensure that
for each text you identify literary and linguistic features
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For
example: linguistic – grammar, syntax, lexis, register
For
example: literary – imagery, phonology, rhetoric
For
example: spoken features - fluency and non fluency features
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Expect to make links to audience, purpose and genre woven
through each of your analytical paragraphs.
Comparative
topic[s]
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Presentation
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Comment on
the presentation of the comparative topic. Focus on similarities and or
differences
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Attitude
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Comment on
the underpinning attitudes, values, assumptions the narrator adopts towards
the theme.
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For
example: sympathetic, unsympathetic, angry, tolerant
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