Comparing Texts

Question 1

What should you do when comparing texts

Answer 1

Look at: audience for each text
purpose of each text and how the author achieves it
Subject or theme of each text and how it’s presented
Techniques used
Writers ideas and perspectives
Which text is more effective

Question 2

What techniques should you look at when comparing texts

Answer 2

Vocab, imagery, rhetorical devices, sentences length and complexity, paragraph length, structure of ideas

Question 3

What words can you use while comparing texts

Answer 3

Similarly, on the other hand, conversely, also, no contrast to, instead, however.