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Portfolio Task - Comparitive

The document outlines various aspects to consider when analyzing literary works, including the writer's purpose, themes, genre conventions, structure, narrative voice, and character development. It also presents practice paper questions that prompt discussion on topics such as alienation, tension, love, contrast, suffering, identity, moral values, and cultural representation in literature. These elements are essential for a comprehensive understanding of the texts studied.

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Portfolio Task - Comparitive

The document outlines various aspects to consider when analyzing literary works, including the writer's purpose, themes, genre conventions, structure, narrative voice, and character development. It also presents practice paper questions that prompt discussion on topics such as alienation, tension, love, contrast, suffering, identity, moral values, and cultural representation in literature. These elements are essential for a comprehensive understanding of the texts studied.

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Title

Date of
Publication
(When?)

Writer (Who?)

Genre and
Form (What?)

Writer’s
purpose
(Why?)

Themes/
author’s
message.
Think about
issues that
relate to the 7
concepts -
Transformatio
n,
Representatio
n, Identity,
Perspective,
Culture,
Community,
Creativity

Conventions
of genre
evident in text,
keywords and
terminology,
author’s
choices

Settings within
the text (time
and place) -
symbolic
value?

Structure - In
poetry, how
are the
stanzas within
the poem
arranged?
What is the
effect of link
breaks? In all
genres: is
there a
beginning,
middle and
end?
Climaxes and
turning points?
Resolutions?
Flashbacks?
In a play: how
many acts,
how many
scenes? Is
this a classic
structure?

Narrative
voice /
Speaker
(1st/3rd
person,
biassed,
neutral)

Characters -
how do you
learn about
them
(dialogue,
description)?
Is there a
clear
protagonist
and
antagonist?
What role do
background
characters
play?

Register
(formal?
Informal?
how?)

Tone
(remember
tone wheel)

Practice Paper 2 Questions:

1. Discuss the ways characters have felt alienated from society in two of the works that you have studied.
2. Tension frequently builds to a critical point in literary works. How is tension created in two works you have studied and to what
purpose?
3. To what extent has falling in or out of love changed the destiny of the characters in two of the works you have studied?
4. Discuss the role of contrast or juxtaposition in two of the works you have studied.
5. How has suffering been described in two of the works you have studied and how has this given meaning to life?
6. How is the identity of characters challenged or changed in two of the works you have studied?
7. How and to what effect are different moral values shown in two of the works you have studied?
8. Comparing the presentation of characters in two of the works you have studied, how does the search for the truth change
people?
9. Discuss how isolation or loneliness is depicted in two of the works you have studied.
10. Implicitly or explicitly, literary works convey their cultural values to the reader. Compare and contrast how this is done in two
of the works you have studied.

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