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Textual Analysis

Textual Analysis. S5 English. Good Morning S5!. In today’s lesson we will... Revise textual analysis. Analyse writers’ techniques. Look at word choice, structure and imagery. Textual Analysis. The textual analysis NAB is based on an extract from a short story, novel, play or poem.

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Textual Analysis

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  1. Textual Analysis S5 English

  2. Good Morning S5! • In today’s lesson we will... • Revise textual analysis. • Analyse writers’ techniques. • Look at word choice, structure and imagery.

  3. Textual Analysis • The textual analysis NAB is based on an extract from a short story, novel, play or poem. • You have to read the text carefully and answer questions on HOW it is written – the techniques the writer uses. • Textual analysis skills overlap with Close Reading, as well as your study of literature.

  4. Textual Analysis • You will be asked... • UNDERSTANDING questions – what is being said by the writer. • ANALYSIS questions – how it is being said. • EVALUATION questions – how well it is being done.

  5. Imagery • When a writer creates a picture in language. • SIMILE A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’. The man is ‘Like a monstrous animal caught in a tent/in some story.’ ‘hands like wet leaves’ What do these similes suggest about the man?

  6. Imagery • METAPHOR A comparison in which one thing is said to be another thing. Doesn’t always use the word ‘is’! Ask yourself – is what the writer is saying literally true?? ‘That child is a pain.’ ‘Her room is a rubbish dump.’ In pairs create 4 metaphors to describe your partner. Make sure you can explain the images suggested!

  7. Practice! Find the metaphors and similes – what do they tell us? Clownlike, happiest on your hands, Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled, Gilled like a fish... Wrapped up in yourself like a spool. Trawling your dark as owls do. Mute as a turnip from the Fourth Of July to All Fool’s Day, O high-riser, my little loaf... Snug as a bud and at home Like a sprat in a pickle jug A creel of eels, all ripples. Jumpy as a Mexican bean. ‘You’re’ by Sylvia Plath

  8. Imagery • PERSONIFICATION A figure of speech where an inanimate object is written about as if it were a person or living creature. ‘The dismal hump/looming over him forces his head down.’ The hump on the man’s back cannot really be pushing and forcing him – it is not a living thing. The poet is suggesting the hump seems alive because it looks as if it has deliberately pushed the man out of shape.

  9. Sound Devices • ONOMATOPOEIA When a word sounds like what it is describing – thud, bang, splash, yawn, howl. ‘slithering with a dull clatter’ It is used to make the writing sound more vivid. • ALLITERARTION Letters or sounds are repeated at the beginnings of words. ‘A cup capsizes along the formica’ It draws our attention to it.

  10. Revise... • Sentence structure • Word choice • Word order • Grammar • Punctuation (commas, colons, dashes, brackets, ellipsis) • Repetition • Contrast

  11. Endings • You may be asked why the ending of a text is suitable. • It may sum up what the writer has been saying. • It may emphasise a point in the text. • It may be humorous. • It may give the reader something to think about.

  12. Practise! • Language Skills • Pg 96-97 • “Child with Pillar Box and Bin Bags”

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