1. Practice Paper 1 Feedback

2. Logistics  With 30 more minutes many of you will be able to fully develop your points.  Shoot for a minimum of 4 pages. With two hours, I would like to see more like 5 pages.  Consider whether you’d prefer to skip lines to make it easier for you to go back and make corrections.

3. Advice & Reminders  The author and the narrator are not identical  The poet and the speaker are not identical  Poems have speakers, prose passages have narrators  Imagery vs. image(s)  You need to discuss structure regardless of which piece you choose  Don’t just restate the text rather than analyzing/interpreting

4. Advice Continued  Don’t focus on minute details to the extent that you fail to give a holistic interpretation of the poem/passage  Leave time to proofread carefully  Use your literary terms  “Shift” is not a technique. A shift IN…mood, tone, perspective…etc.

5. Dominant Effect  Do not list techniques in D.E.  What is the primary intellectual effect (the big idea)?  What is the primary emotional effect on the reader (you)?  Combine those two into one sentence to create your Dominant Effect (thesis)

6. Extended Metaphor vs. Symbol  Extended metaphor: Direct comparison between two unlike things that continues through an entire paragraph or stanza of a poem (or more)  Symbol: object that represents something greater than itself, usually an abstract quality like liberty, justice, etc. Not a direct comparison

7. Tone vs. Mood?

8. Can you find….?  POEM  Simile  Conditional or subjunctive tense  Rhyme scheme  Stanza  Sestet  Enjambment  PROSE  personification  narrator  repetition  Simple sentence  Complex sentence  Dialogue  setting

9. Reflection & Goal Setting  What went well?  What do you want to do differently next time?