Sentence starters Flashcards
1
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Beneath it’s apparent simplicity lurks an alternative vision of reality
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2
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Comparative sentence structures:
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- Whilst Williams uses white clothing to establish Blanche’s desire to appear young & appealing, Atwood uses the colour red to reinforce the sexual fertility of the young women but as a warning rather than a lure to partners
- Despite differing societies of the texts, both of these texts…
3
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Writer is…
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- commenting
- exposing
- declaring
- criticising
- emphasising
- reinforcing
- echoing
- reflecting
- portraying
- attempting
- confirming
- highlighting
- exhibiting
- constructing
- concluding
- promulgating (publicizing/commenting)
- synthesizing
- including
- signaling
- writers {effective} description.. of ..
- encompassing
- incubating (cause/give support to the development of smth)
- there’s a delineation
4
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Adverbs:
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- Potentially
- Seemingly
- Considerably
- Likely
- Possibly
- Deliberately
- Intentionally
- respectively
- initially
- profoundly
- purposely
- seamlessly
- irredeemably (not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off. irremediable; irreparable; hopeless.)
- utterly (to an absolute or extreme degree : to the full extent)
- does indeed [use]
5
Q
After a point/In my opinion…
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- Knowing this
- Here,
- it is evident that
- it is credible to argue that
- it is reasonable to advocate for
- one must consider
- it is possible to argue that
6
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Conclusion
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- Finally, to characterise the writers presentation of women as merely [theme from question] is far too reductive. Rather, as [a poem] foretells, this is a collection of….
- these poems roughly track how women poets turned, twisted, and blasted open poetry’s forms, subjects, and institutions to make room for their experiences and their voices
7
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Contrast
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- dichotomy; “a rigid dichotomy between science and mysticism”
- dissimilarity
- juxtaposition;
- divergence; “the divergence between primates and other groups”
- incongruity; there’s something incongruous about eating dessert before the main course.
- disparity; “economic disparities between different regions of the country”
- distinction; “I was completely unaware of class distinctions”
- chasm; “the chasm between rich and poor”
- conversely; “used to introduce a statement that contrasts with a previous statement or presents a differing interpretation or possibility “
8
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Literature throughout the ages has explored… [theme in the Q]
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9
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but this only serves [to emphasise the unconventional ideas]
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