Literature_Prose_Analysis__JC_

Literature Prose Analysis Questions / ​ Parallels ​ / ​ Main Ideas Notes Assessment Criteria What are the 4 Assessment Criteria for Literature? Assessment Criteria 1. Literary Terminology 2. Sensitivity: Personal & Insightful 3. Imagination 4. Systematic Thinking Answering Technique State the Micro Elements of Poetry ● What relations should you be looking out for within these elements? ● What are the 3 steps of Literary Analysis? A Thematic Prose Introduction must Bring in the Text’s C______ How many Examples should a Point have? State Authorial Judgement on Topic Sentence and Link to Mind & Self Sample Questions: ● What is the process of/ experience of X like? How is X featured in the text? ● What is the effect of X in terms of identity/ how she sees herself/ state of mind? Before the Exam Macro: Plum in Tomato Salad Always Causes Purple Vomit ● Plot, Imagery, Themes, Structure/Setting, Atmosphere & Mood, Characterisation & Conflict, Parallel & Foil, Voice and Visual Spectacle (Drama) During the Exam Analysis Micro: Speech, Diction, Rhythm, Sentence Construction, Schemes of Omission, Schemes of Repetition ● What do the elements reveal in ​ Contrast and Synergy ​ ? ○ Note Contradictions and Relations within Poem ○ Good to use Multiple elements ● What? → How? → Why?

● Technique > Effect > Significance ○ Bring out Action of the Author ○ Drama: DRAMA IS MEANT FOR THE STAGE ■ Consider Visual/Auditory Spectacle ○ E.g. The author uses visual imagery in the simile “men die as cattle” to suggest that the men considered less than human in how they are systematically, indiscriminately and frequently sacrificed for war, so as to condemn the act of war as senseless ● Effect: Questions to Consider ○ What is this ​ associated ​ with? ○ How does this relate to the ​ context of the prose ​ and as a general statement ​ ? ○ Why did the author ​ choose ​ to add this when the ​ sentence would have been fine without it/other things could have been used ​ ? ○ What does the author want to ​ achieve (plot/theme/emotion) ​ ? Does this support/oppose it? ○ Are there other interpretations of this? How do the interpretations contrast/synergise? ○ How would the audience respond? ■ Emotion: Laughter, Horror, Suspense, Surprise, Excitement, Shock, Tears ■ Opinion of Characters: Pity, Admiration, Scorn ■ Plot Development: Curiosity, Anticipation, Tension, Relief, Catharsis ■ Moral Judgement: Condemn/Commend ■ Intellectual Stimulation ● M4M: Pressures of Societal Judgement, Damage of Patriarchal Society ○ Tone and Mood

Preparation ● Draw a Mindmap of Ideas for Keywords by Defining and Setting Boundaries for them and Link them together ○ E.g: Messages of Author about Aging → Factors in one’s Sense of Self ■ Aging: Growth of the Physical Body; Effect on self? Think of Moments when Aging ca