Key learning points

1. Evidence within a paragraph should contain linked moments and quotations.
2. Moments should be contextualised and linked with connectives, to demonstrate understanding of plot sequencing.
3. Connotations of words and images should be linked to other examples that either compound or contrast their effect.
4. More sophisticated terms e.g. ‘semantic field’, support commentary on the cumulative effect of language.

Keywords

• Contextualise - to place something in the setting that surrounds it, in order to fully understand it

• Cumulative - increasing in effect, quantity or strength gradually

• Noblility - having virtue or high status

• Epiphany - a moment of sudden realisation

Common misconception