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Beneath it’s apparent simplicity lurks an alternative vision of reality

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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…
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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
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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]
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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
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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
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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 “
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Literature throughout the ages has explored… [theme in the Q]

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but this only serves [to emphasise the unconventional ideas]

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