Comparing texts about World War One using comparative topic sentences
I can write comparative topic sentences about two texts which focus on the same event - World War One.
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What you'll learn
- Comparing one text to another can often help you evaluate it more clearly.
- You can compare what each writer chose to write about, and how they chose to write about it.
- The opening line of comparative paragraphs could start with a topic sentence which states the paragraph's main idea.
- The next sentences of a comparative paragraph could focus on the differences between the two texts you wish to compare.
Common mix-up
“You can't compare different text types to each other. For example, a short story to a memoir.”
By comparing different forms, we can often come to understand why a writer chose a particular text type more deeply - what this particular text type allowed them to do or convey to the reader.
Keywords
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- evaluate
- to consider something carefully and make a judgement about it
- form
- in literature, the type of text a writer uses; short story, memoir, poem are all examples
- first person
- the narrator is a person in the story, using pronouns like 'I', 'we', 'me'
- third person
- the narrator is not a person in the story, using pronouns like 'she', 'he', 'they'
- method
- the tools a writer uses to create their work; structure, form and language are perhaps the most significant examples.
Try the first question
When analysing a piece of war literature, we might consider the writer's choice of form, language and structure. Match these key terms to their definitions.
- form
- structure
- language
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