ELLA 1 INTEGRATED
ANALYSIS AND TEXT PRODUCTION
TIMED ESSAY FEEDBACK
– THE ESSAY STYLE ANSWER
If there was one single factor that would improve every
answer I marked for this question it would be the level of analysis used in your
answers.
I expected this and much of our revision between now and the
exam on the 17 May will focus on language analysis. We will concentrate on the
34 terms I’ve used below. It is not an exhaustive list but it is a list of what
seem common and straightforward terms to embed in your answers whether you will
write on Streetcar or Spies.
Here are thirty three common linguistic, rhetorical and
literary features you should be able to refer to in your commentary in the
essay style question. These are a must know list. Of course there may be other
terms you know with confidence.
The Must Know List
Language
|
or
|
Linguistic
|
frameworks
|
Literary
|
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, adverbials,
|
declaratives, imperatives, exclamatives, interrogatives,
simple, compound
complex
|
high and low frequency lexis, connotations, denotations,
lexical fields
|
formal, informal, colloquial, idiolect, slang,
contractions
|
repetition, list of 3, direct address, contrasting pairs
|
metaphor, simile, personification, symbolism,
onomatopoeia, alliteration
|
Grammar
|
Syntax
|
Lexis
|
Register
|
Rhetoric*
|
Literary
|
For definitions and examples of these terms and for further linguistic and literary features check out the glossary on this blog. Click here!
An essay style answer must refer to a variety of boxes from
1 – 5 but must refer to box 6 in your answer. As well as referring to these
analytical frameworks you need to also comment on the effect on the reader of
these techniques.
If you don’t know the definition of a term then check out
the glossary on this blog or elsewhere on the internet or dictionary.
I will post a Should
Know List and a Could Know List at a
later stage. Please note the modal verbs in these titles. I’ve put them in
italics.
SPIES ANALYSIS TASK
I would expect an analysis answer for this question to
address most if not all of the following key features of Mr Hayward’s
presentation.
There are two key episodes that answers should be drawn
from. These are
Chapter 7 page 145-147 – the episode with the thermos flask
Chapter 9 Page 186-189 – the episode with the basket
These are the only two extended episodes in which Mr Hayward
features.
Any answer on Spies must include references to the narrative
perspective. As part of every analytical paragraph I expect that you will
comment on either Stephen as a child – main narrative viewpoint or the older 70
year old Stephen – the frame narrative viewpoint.
I expect that you will refer to Mr Hayward as a significant minor
character
He is presented as a war hero;
secretive
uncommunicative
- he does not speak to Stephen and
speaks in clipped elliptical sentences perhaps drawn from a military background
-
he does
jobs around the house
strict and disciplined
-
Keith
is threatened with punishment even with small misdemeanours
- Keith – the thermos
- Mrs Hayward – scarf round neck
- Mrs Hayward’s absence from The Close
- Mr Hayward accompanies Mrs Hayward
- the confrontation with Stephen and the basket in the gararge
- the
basket confrontation
isolated character
whistle ‘old
chap’ weak smile
important influence on Keith
compare fathers
It is highly unlikely any technique will make us feel
sympathetic towards Mr Hayward.
A STREETCAR NAMED
DESIRE – ANALYSIS TASK
Focus on Blanche’s speech it is a gold mine of language,
rhetorical and literary devices to comment on in your answers.
For Blanche there is the past of Belle Reve and her time at
Laurel – which includes her time teaching at the school and her time staying at
the Hotel Flamingo. And there is also a fantasised past – which includes
references to Shep Huntley.
