Year 11 - English
Explaining comparative imagery in unseen poetry
Unseen poetry
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils prepare for the unseen poetry in their Literature GCSE by reading poems, studying different poetry methods, and developing personal responses. They start by looking at ideas in single poems, before developing their comparative skills and writing comparisons of two unseen poems.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to understand and explain the use of comparative imagery in a poem.
Key Notes
- Analysing comparative imagery can offer a rich textual analysis.
- Arguably, similes and metaphors are conceptually different.
- The comparative imagery throughout 'Mother, Diving' could show how the mother has found freedom.
- The comparative imagery could also represent the mother subverting maternal stereotypes.
Vocabulary To Learn
- conceptualise: form a concept or idea of (something)
- vulnerable: able to be easily hurt, influenced, or attacked
- conquer: to overcome (an obstacle, feeling, desire, etc)
- transformation: a complete change in the appearance or character of something or someone
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- That similes and metaphors are interchangeable.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Analysing comparative imagery can offer a rich textual analysis. Arguably, similes and metaphors are conceptually different.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'conceptualise'
form a concept or idea of (something).
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: That similes and metaphors are interchangeable. Correction: Similes and metaphors are conceptually different since, in a simile, one thing does not become another while in a metaphor they do become each other.
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- Analysing use of sound in an unseen poem Study Guide
- Comparing how poets present motherhood and maternal stereotypes in unseen poems Study Guide
- Comparing ideas about transience in unseen poetry Study Guide
- Comparing personal responses to unseen poetry Study Guide
- Conceptualising and analysing speaker and voice in unseen poetry Study Guide
- Developing a personal response to an unseen poem Study Guide
- Exploring titles in unseen poetry Study Guide
- Identifying and analysing semantic fields in unseen poetry Study Guide
- Planning a comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poetry Study Guide
- Planning a response to an unseen poem by collecting and organising your thoughts Study Guide
- Reviewing a comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poetry Study Guide
- Selecting and using quotations from an unseen poem Study Guide
- Structural analysis of unseen poetry Study Guide
- Understanding sub-text in unseen poems Study Guide
- Writing a comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poetry Study Guide
- Writing and developing a response to an unseen poem Study Guide
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