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Feedback includes (but probably isn’t limited to): We talked about this *angry face* 😠, TONE! Technique! Make sure you analyse rather than re-tell the story Mention the word STRUCTURE! That’s what you’re referring to More on poetic form Hence my response to the four following points are as follows: I’M SORRY I’LL FIGURE IT…

Paper 1 foodfront

1) Carefully link my analysis to my chose quotation Don’t generally analyse quotations by grouping them under a set analysis – eg grouping ‘dank’ and ‘misty’ as a rotten atmosphere as opposed to analysing them separately. ‘Dank’ as rotten, ‘misty’ as ‘mysterious’ and so on 2) Use the words ‘mood’ and ‘atmosphere’ instead of…

How to write a decent thesis for lit (that isn’t a total gongshow)

THINGS I NEED TO DO: Don’t list Don’t list techniques in the intro Make the sentences flow Spot patterns in the poem and use those as your main points and state it in the intro Use the word ‘persona’ instead of ‘character’ where appropriate (for poems) Maybe if I write I <3 Markham at the…

Eco-criticism in Literature

Eco-criticism: literature texts/extracts that illustrate environmental concerns/how literature treats the subject of nature Anthropocentrism – the assumption that human life is the central fact Anthropomorphism – attribution of human form or personality to nature Bioregion – a natural region, exhibiting both stability and diversity, which is defined by its ecological coherence Biosphere – collective name…

The Road (but not the one not taken)

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gun-metal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire. Describe the tone, mood and atmosphere of the opening pages of the novel. Examine the dream in the opening pages as a way of establishing a sense of foreboding. The novel begins (and has throughout)…

Acts but make it Human

What do they mean when they discuss Kang’s detached style? “Tonally, their work shares a muted detachment, which accentuates each episode of terror: The simple act of one character striking another, for example, explodes with all the repressed rage of not just one, particular society, but any experience of injustice, regardless of cultural affiliation.” –…

Under the Sea, Plath edition

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If They Come For Us – Fatimah Asghar

Confrontation. Confrontational language. Enjambment. Internalised self-hatred. Freaks like me. Asghar seems to recount her childhood experience with adult language – fuck, sacks, tits, yes. My favourite? A poem from the collection A Starless Sky Is A Joy Too, where Asghar despite being dressed in a witch’s costume for halloween – pretending to be someone else – is…

Graphing Literature (only because Atonement is whiny)

Belts and Bombs, The Death of Eamonn Lone

The ending of Home Fire closely, if not literally, follows the ending of Antigone (at least, the ending we know of from Anouilh’s Antigone). Shamsie describes Aneeka and Eamonn as “woman”, “she”, and the “man in the navy-blue shirt”, making the characters seem as if they do not have an identity. Addressing them by pronouns…