Developing Comparative Essay Writing Skills | English

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 ✓
How many poems from the Power and Conflict anthology will you be expected to compare at a time?
- one
- two ✓
- three
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'' ✓
How are the ''lone and level'' sands of 'Ozymandias' comparable to the ''huge peak'' of 'Extract from The Prelude''?
- Both show nature's ability to destroy
- Both show the awe of the natural world ✓
- Both show mankind's weakness
Match the technique to the appropriate quote.
- ''huge peak, black and huge''
  
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  repetition of monosyllabic words ✓
- ''cold command''
  
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  guttural alliteration ✓
- ''Look on my works''
  
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  imperative ✓
- ''the horizon's utmost boundary''
  
  ⇔
  
  superlative ✓
- ''runs in blood down palace walls''
  
  ⇔
  
  metaphor ✓
- ''marriage hearse''
  
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  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
- destory man's ego ✓