Starter quiz
- What does it mean to compare?
- explore similarities between two or more things
- explore differences between two or more things
- explore similarities and differences between two or more things ✓
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- How many poems from the Power and Conflict anthology will you be expected to compare at a time?
- one
- two ✓
- three
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- The ''lone and level'' sands of 'Ozymandias' are comparable to the __________ of 'Extract from The Prelude'.
- ''elfin pinnace''
- ''solitude and desertion''
- ''huge peak, black and huge'' ✓
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- How do Shelley and Wordsworth use nature imagery in 'Ozymandias' and 'Extract from the Prelude'?
- both show nature's ability to destroy
- both show the awe of the natural world ✓
- both show mankind's weakness
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- Match the technique to the appropriate quote.
- ''huge peak, black and huge''⇔repetition of monosyllabic words ✓
- ''cold command''⇔guttural alliteration ✓
- ''Look on my works''⇔imperative ✓
- ''the horizon's utmost boundary''⇔superlative ✓
- ''runs in blood down palace walls''⇔metaphor ✓
- ''marriage hearse''⇔juxtaposition ✓
- Both 'Ozymandias' and 'Extract from The Prelude' show how nature is powerful enough to...
- give a young boy an existential epiphany,
- destroy magnficent statues,
- destroy reputation,
- destroy man's ego, ✓
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Exit quiz
- Which of the below is a comparative conjunction designed to show comparison?
- Furthermore
- Thus
- Whereas ✓
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- ''Ozymandias assumed his work would be remembered for centuries to come. Thus, Ozymandias was ignorant of nature’s ability to outlast and erode all traces of his power''. The word 'thus'...
- is a correlative conjunction designed to show a comparison
- is a comparative conjunction designed to show comparison
- is a discourse marker designed to signpost the argument ✓
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- Which of the below quotes contains an imperative?
- ''horizon's utmost boundary''
- ''Look on my works, ye Might, and Despair'' ✓
- ''mighty forms that do not live like living men''
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- Match the sentence stem with the purpose
- Neither...nor⇔correlative conjunctions to aid comparison ✓
- In conclusion⇔discourse marker to show progression of argument ✓
- The use of...suggests..⇔sentence stem to aid analysis ✓
- When writing a comparative poetry response you should...
- deal with the two poems in separate paragraphs
- compare the literary movements first
- weave ideas about both poems into one paragraph ✓
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- Order the phrases to create a coherent segment of a comparative response.
- 1⇔In both 'Ozymandias' and 'London'
- 2⇔the abuse of power is shown.
- 3⇔In 'Ozymandias', the tyrant Ramesses II's ''sneer of cold command''
- 4⇔suggests how he was cruel to his subjects who he had a duty to protect.
- 5⇔Whereas in 'London', Blake exposes corruption via religious institutions
- 6⇔who are complict in child labour ''every blackn'ing church appalls''.
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Key learning points
- Topic sentences must be comparative when comparing texts.
- Comparisons should be made between ideas, intentions, themes, and messages.
- Correlative and comparative conjunctions are a good way to signpost your comparative writing.
- Within paragraphs, evidence can move back and forth between the two poems and be linked with connectives.
- Drawing a direct comparison of quotations should take place at least once across the essay.
Common misconception
A comparative response just needs to reference two poems.
A comparative response must explicitly compare two poems on big ideas. It is important to use discourse markers to signpost comparisons.
Keywords
Discourse marker - a word or phrase whose job is to organise writing or spoken language into segments
Imperative - give an authoritative command
Superlative - highest attainable level of something
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