Textual Analysis

Question 1

Prose aspects (11)

Answer 1

Setting, structure, characterisation, tone, narrator, imagery, key themes, t.p., beginning/end, climax, title

Question 2

Poetry aspects (12)

Answer 2

Word choice, connotations, sound technique, rhythm/ rhyme, t.p., progression, stanza length, structure, imagery, opening/ ending line, repetition, tone

Question 3

Villanelle

Answer 3

19 lines, refer to nature, 5 tercets and a quatrain

Question 4

Sonnet

Answer 4

14 lines, iambic pentameter, focus on one thing

Question 5

Ballad

Answer 5

Short stanzas, folky

Question 6

Sounds (10)

Answer 6

Rhythm, rhyme, vowel sounds (long/short), consonant sounds, alliteration, assonance (rep vowels), repetition, onomatopoeia, silences/ pauses (caesura), enjambment

Question 7

Imagery (3)

Answer 7

Simile, metaphor, personification

Question 8

Language features (7)

Answer 8

Paradox, antithesis (cont), hyperbole, litotes, climax, pun, oxymoron

Question 9

Style (8)

Answer 9

Era, amount of dialogue, description/setting, character psychology, sentence structure, subject, theme, genre

Question 10

Writing checklist (9)

Answer 10

Theme tone narrative character structure imagery diction sound rhyme rhythm