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Persuasive Techniques

How to make people agree with you!

Persuasive Techniques And Aforest from wendron

Catherine Tate and David Tennant do Shakespeare

How to embed quotations and avoid 'Quote Bombs'

When you are writing about a text, it's important to think hard about exactly which quotations to use to back up your points - keep them short (no longer than one line) and introduce them properly, like this:

PEA Paragraphs for A* Answers

Disneyfied Revision Fun with Language Devices

Watch the following video to jog your memory about spotting and using key language devices:

Difference between form and structure

Always a tricky one, but essential for your Literary Heritage Controlled Assessment. Here's AQA's advice:


Form relates to the external shape of a text, determined by how it is presented on
paper, organised by stanzas/paragraphs, lines, syllables, rhyme, justification – best
thought of as a silhouette. It is a simpler thing to comment on because it is usually
visible.
Structure is more interesting because it goes beyond the visible – it is a matter of
the internal development and relationship between parts: structure is about the
internal skeleton and organs – best thought of as an X ray or CT scan, displaying the organic relationship between ideas, feelings and attitudes within a text. For example, the form of a sonnet is its 14 line length, its 8 line/6 line division and its rhyme scheme. Within that form the structure may be 8 lines of description leading to 6 lines of reflection, generalisation, resolution; or the mood may go from neutral to sombre, or from sombre and resentful to acceptant.