Quick questions on Features of an analytical essay: VCE English Unit 1 Area of Study 1

Sentence one. A claim about the text that engages the prompt. The opening should sound argumentative, not summative.

Topic sentence. Names the claim and links it to the prompt.

The second line of argument. At Year 11 the second paragraph should add something the first did not: a complication, a qualification, a different angle. A high-band Year 11 response shows that the writer can hold two positions in mind.

The lifting line of argument. This paragraph operates at the level of the whole text rather than the scene. A motif tracked across chapters, the ending, the structural shape of the text. The third paragraph is the marker's signal that the writer has read the whole text.

Reassert the contention in new language. Name what the body has shown. Avoid summary, avoid the phrase "in conclusion", and avoid introducing new evidence.

A contention is stated and defended.

Claims rest on short embedded quotations, named features, and specific scenes.

Each feature named is connected to an effect on the reader and to the text's ideas, concerns or conflicts.

A claim about the text that engages the prompt. The opening should sound argumentative, not summative.

The contention. A direct response to the prompt's directive verb (discuss, to what extent, how does, in what ways).

A signpost of the three lines of argument the body will develop.

Names the claim and links it to the prompt.

One sentence locating the scene in the text.

Each is a phrase fused into your sentence.

For each quotation, name a feature (vocabulary, structural, figurative) and argue its effect on the reader.