Key learning points

1. Topic sentences must be comparative when comparing texts.
2. Comparisons should be made between ideas, intentions, themes, and messages.
3. Correlative and comparative conjunctions are a good way to signpost your comparative writing.
4. Within paragraphs, evidence can move back and forth between the two poems and be linked with connectives.
5. Drawing a direct comparison of quotations should take place at least once across the essay.

Keywords

• Discourse marker - a word or phrase whose job is to organise writing or spoken language into segments

• Imperative - give an authoritative command

• Superlative - highest attainable level of something

Common misconception