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What is analysing?
Analysing is about exploring the text in a deeper way
How many things do you need to think about when you are analysing?
There are 4 things you need to remember
What is the first thing you need to think about when you are analysing?
What does the character symbolise and what do they represent?
What is the second thing you need to think about when you are analysing?
What ideas are re - current (what ideas continue over and over again)
What is the third thing you need to think about when you are analysing?
What the writer is intending to do in their writing
What are they trying to do?
How are they writing it with intended purpose?
What is the fourth thing you need to think about when you are analysing?
What do we know about the writer
How many steps are there to remember when you are analysing?
There are 4 steps to remember
What is step 1?
Technique
Refer to the technique sheet for the range of techniques you can pick when looking at a quote
What is step 2?
Say what it does
Say the effect of the technique and what it does
You must think about if the technique : emphasises, draw attention to an idea, build, trust or highlight an idea
Look at the technique sheet and look at the effect of each technique
What is step 3?
Say what it shows
What does the technique further show?
If it is a connotation for example, and a connotation of a ‘’fire’’ is ‘’hell’’ this could show that there will be hellish consequences of… (explain the idea)
Use the word you said for ‘what it does’ and then explain what it shows
For example, if you say the alliteration on a phrase creates a repetitive tone (this is your what it does), you could say that this reinforces that (whatever the idea is) is repeated (this is your say what it shows) and then you would explain this
What is step 4?
Why?
Why have said it shows this?
Use words such as ‘because’ and ‘as’ to say why
Link it back to what you said the effect of the technique was earlier
When it says ‘technique’ this means I…
Pick out a technique I am confident I know the effect of
To really push yourself you should try comment on what the character…
Symbolises/represents/is a microcosm of
Symbolise - think about what they represent and what the deeper meaning/purpose is of the character
Microcosm - when a small idea represents a bigger picture or idea
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