I dont get english lit

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leave a small blank space (1989 era) for your introduction. it's easier to write it at the end when you're in the flow of things

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imagine a battenberg cake. ive never eaten one but imagine what it looks like

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each coloured square is a poem, the jam is the comparison, and the outside bit is idk your writing or something

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(ive uploaded a picture of all of this to make it make sense, sorry about the abominable handwriting)

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you now need to choose a few methods, and a few content points

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so for methods- you could talk about rhyme scheme, structure, who's pov, word choice etc.

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for content points (i just refer to it as vibe because i need everything in normal language) you could do attitudes, context, tone, setting...

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try to avoid comparing the way you might in other humanities or it starts to sound like a spot the difference, be subtle with it and make sure to refer to the significance of the point you're making

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my teacher used to be an examiner and she told me that she didn't really bother with conclusions unless they had some kind of quote or point in them

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then once you're done, go back to the start, and write your introduction

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i have memory problems so i like to write down everything i can remember at the beginning so i dont get mixed up.

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this is a guide for power and conflict poetry

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shakespeare, 19th century novel, the other category (inspector calls one), and unseen poetry need to be answered differently.

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write my introduction: just do a brief of poverty in acc, how it changes, and make a brief reference to the extract (doesn't have to be long, just like a quick 'as seen in the extract', the way you might in science or geography)

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my personal preference is to walk my way through the novel for themes, because they change throughout and so my first paragraph for acc is always scrooge at the beginning and how dickens establishes him, his attitudes, political beliefs etc, but deliberately overly highlighting the poverty parts. like oh yes his nephew is unnamed but LOOK AT THIS 'PORTLY GENTLEMAN' AND OH MY GOODNESS LOOK HOW SCROOGE VIEWS THE POOR AS SURPLUS DUMP SOME CONTEXT IN HERE AND YOUVE GOT UR AO WHATEVER IT IS! LOOK AT HOW MISERLY HE IS POOR BOB

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i am the president and founder of the marley hate club so i skip him unless forced to by the extract

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brief pause to remind you that they never say how much of the extract to use. my teacher told me it tends to be either a great extract with an awful question, or the other way around (she then gave us a list of awful questions with awful extracts for revision!)

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this means you can use the extract as much or as little as you want. if you're absolutely disgusted, just pick a word or two to quote and analyse and then get out of there asap

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with acc it's then normally easiest to work your way through the ghosts according to the themes, so for poverty i would do scrooge as a child in a school with 'broken windows' and 'not getting enough to eat', leading to his fear of poverty. then belle to show what fear of poverty has done to him- he will never find love or start a family of his own, and even though belle's family is quite poor and 'rude', theyre still happy and 'tumultuous' and scrooge would have 'given' anything to be with them blah blah blah. maybe something about financial language in the breakup scene

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the next ghost shows scrooge the cratchit family: scrooge is forced to confront the current effects of poverty on people and realise that this is often his fault. look how poor the cratchits are. look how difficult they have it. follow this with ignorance and want- physical manifestations of the consequences of poverty. look at them! analyse their quotes! poor law amendment of 1834! scrooge's political views thrown back at him and he realises how vile they are!

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ghost of christmas yet to come: this is a scenario in which scrooge has died, and we learn that 1) the business of the rich is often no better than the criminality of the poor (the two nasty business men who laugh about his death, and the scene in the beetling shop) and 2) the poor are not surplus (tiny tim) but people like scrooge are

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now show scrooge as a changed man and how he is so much better- for poverty, see how he gives charity and gives bob a raise and buys his family food

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brief conclusion wrapping up your argument

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write my introduction: just do a brief of poverty in acc, how it changes, and make a brief reference to the extract (doesn't have to be long, just like a quick 'as seen in the extract', the way you might in science or geography)

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my personal preference is to walk my way through the novel for themes, because they change throughout and so my first paragraph for acc is always scrooge at the beginning and how dickens establishes him, his attitudes, political beliefs etc, but deliberately overly highlighting the poverty parts. like oh yes his nephew is unnamed but LOOK AT THIS 'PORTLY GENTLEMAN' AND OH MY GOODNESS LOOK HOW SCROOGE VIEWS THE POOR AS SURPLUS DUMP SOME CONTEXT IN HERE AND YOUVE GOT UR AO WHATEVER IT IS! LOOK AT HOW MISERLY HE IS POOR BOB

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i am the president and founder of the marley hate club so i skip him unless forced to by the extract

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brief pause to remind you that they never say how much of the extract to use. my teacher told me it tends to be either a great extract with an awful question, or the other way around (she then gave us a list of awful questions with awful extracts for revision!)

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this means you can use the extract as much or as little as you want. if you're absolutely disgusted, just pick a word or two to quote and analyse and then get out of there asap

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with acc it's then normally easiest to work your way through the ghosts according to the themes, so for poverty i would do scrooge as a child in a school with 'broken windows' and 'not getting enough to eat', leading to his fear of poverty. then belle to show what fear of poverty has done to him- he will never find love or start a family of his own, and even though belle's family is quite poor and 'rude', theyre still happy and 'tumultuous' and scrooge would have 'given' anything to be with them blah blah blah. maybe something about financial language in the breakup scene

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the next ghost shows scrooge the cratchit family: scrooge is forced to confront the current effects of poverty on people and realise that this is often his fault. look how poor the cratchits are. look how difficult they have it. follow this with ignorance and want- physical manifestations of the consequences of poverty. look at them! analyse their quotes! poor law amendment of 1834! scrooge's political views thrown back at him and he realises how vile they are!

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ghost of christmas yet to come: this is a scenario in which scrooge has died, and we learn that 1) the business of the rich is often no better than the criminality of the poor (the two nasty business men who laugh about his death, and the scene in the beetling shop) and 2) the poor are not surplus (tiny tim) but people like scrooge are

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now show scrooge as a changed man and how he is so much better- for poverty, see how he gives charity and gives bob a raise and buys his family food

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brief conclusion wrapping up your argument