As introduced from the previous post, when it comes to analysing unseen literary texts, it is important to focus on big 5 key analysing points.
To check the big 5 rules in practice, here follows a sample analysis and essay outlining for an unseen extract from a lit past paper.
Do check the quality of the analysis and thoroughness of the essay outlining!
Intro
Main idea: Depicting the tragic moment of witnessing her husband’s fall in the bathroom, the poet delivers great shock and horror that engulfed her.
Body 1:
Analysing point: Bathroom is portrayed as a country and the components of the bathroom are portrayed as witnesses.
Simile, & metaphor: "the towels hanging like flags in a tiny hot country"
Personification: Blank faced, it tells no tales, won’t give up the secret. Personification
Body 2:
Analysing point: The writer compares the husband’s tragic accident to something that took him to an unknown region .
Metaphor: you brought another language back with you.
Anthropomorphism & pathetic fallacy : an empty house abandoned to the wind and rain.
Body 3:
Analysing point: the writer uses emotive diction and the structure of a conversation to create a sense of confusion.
Simile & Symbolism: The hotel quiet as a church. Simile The word ‘hotel’ evokes a sense of death, god, angel
Enjambment: I can only guess which loving object tried to catch you. Enjambment.
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