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Can somebody please explain these terms to me and how they should be used in an essay.
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Form - What you are studying e.g. novel, play, diary entry, poem... etc.
Structure - how that piece is structured, so the acts in a play, the stanzas in a poem, the chapters of a novel... you can also 'zoom in' a bit and look at rhyme schemes/word order in poems, paragraphs in prose, stage directions (exits and entrances) etc.
Language - the choice of words and their characteristics - typically things like alliteration, assonance, sibilance, the linguistic history of a word, onomatapoeia... but also things like semantic field, or just general observations on language type e.g. 'He uses emotive language'
In an essay you should highlight the methods the author has used, and then state what the effects are and why you think they have been chosen.
Structure - how that piece is structured, so the acts in a play, the stanzas in a poem, the chapters of a novel... you can also 'zoom in' a bit and look at rhyme schemes/word order in poems, paragraphs in prose, stage directions (exits and entrances) etc.
Language - the choice of words and their characteristics - typically things like alliteration, assonance, sibilance, the linguistic history of a word, onomatapoeia... but also things like semantic field, or just general observations on language type e.g. 'He uses emotive language'
In an essay you should highlight the methods the author has used, and then state what the effects are and why you think they have been chosen.
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See I'd call the form, the context, the structure, the discourse, and the language the language choices used. But then I am an English Language student and so do not study poetry etc.
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(Original post by Lidia)
Form - What you are studying e.g. novel, play, diary entry, poem... etc.
Structure - how that piece is structured, so the acts in a play, the stanzas in a poem, the chapters of a novel... you can also 'zoom in' a bit and look at rhyme schemes/word order in poems, paragraphs in prose, stage directions (exits and entrances) etc.
Language - the choice of words and their characteristics - typically things like alliteration, assonance, sibilance, the linguistic history of a word, onomatapoeia... but also things like semantic field, or just general observations on language type e.g. 'He uses emotive language'
In an essay you should highlight the methods the author has used, and then state what the effects are and why you think they have been chosen.
Form - What you are studying e.g. novel, play, diary entry, poem... etc.
Structure - how that piece is structured, so the acts in a play, the stanzas in a poem, the chapters of a novel... you can also 'zoom in' a bit and look at rhyme schemes/word order in poems, paragraphs in prose, stage directions (exits and entrances) etc.
Language - the choice of words and their characteristics - typically things like alliteration, assonance, sibilance, the linguistic history of a word, onomatapoeia... but also things like semantic field, or just general observations on language type e.g. 'He uses emotive language'
In an essay you should highlight the methods the author has used, and then state what the effects are and why you think they have been chosen.
EDIT: What examiners want is for you to come up with some poncy explanation as to WHY the writer is using the form/structure/language in the way he(or she, but generally he) is. For example: "John Smith uses an enjambment in his poem My Heart Is Broken between the words "my heart is" and "broken" to emphasise how broken his heart is." An enjambment is the breaking of a sentence by starting a new line half way through... can't explain it that well, but in "John Smith's" poem it would look like this:
I am in love and she does not love me,
It was a love that was not meant to be,
It pains - the way my heart is
Broken, and I remain open to the nastynesses of life etcetc...
Even if there is no reason, and it was a pure coincidence that John Smith put "broken" on to a new line, you need to make out like it is important. Everything writers do is for a reason (should be your mind set) and you need to figure out why.
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See I'd call the form, the context, the structure, the discourse, and the language the language choices used. But then I am an English Language student and so do not study poetry etc.
See I'd call the form, the context, the structure, the discourse, and the language the language choices used. But then I am an English Language student and so do not study poetry etc.
But what the examiner wants, the examiner gets...
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Can somebody please explain these terms to me and how they should be used in an essay.
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Can somebody please explain these terms to me and how they should be used in an essay.
Thank you.
http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/mainguides/analysis.htm
Hope that helps.
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These are explained on this site:
http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/mainguides/analysis.htm
Hope that helps.
These are explained on this site:
http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/mainguides/analysis.htm
Hope that helps.
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It always means, identifying and commenting on key literary techniques used by the author.
It can mean looking at specific words/ phrases but it should also mean looking at the overall style and tone of the text/ sections of the text.
It doesn’t mean a word-by-word and line-by-line analysis of every page.
It can mean looking at specific words/ phrases but it should also mean looking at the overall style and tone of the text/ sections of the text.
It doesn’t mean a word-by-word and line-by-line analysis of every page.
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Can anyone tell me this; How does language, structure and form contribute to a writer's presentation of ideas, themes and settings? Any help would be appreciated.
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(Original post by Perol)
What are the form and structure devices?
What are the form and structure devices?
Form of a sonnet is 14 lines, usually structure is iambic pentameter.
Form of the novel Dracula, is an epistolary novel. The structure is a linear novel.
Form of A Woman of No Importance play is a comedy of manners play and structure follows any ordinary play.
So it really depends on what you are studying.
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Can someone please tell me what is the language form or structure of assonance I need it now
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