Quick questions on Analytical commentary on persuasive language: VCE English Unit 2 Year 11

Introduction (around 100 to 150 words). Contention sentence.

The commentary follows the order of the text under analysis. Body paragraph 1 analyses the opening, body 2 the middle, body 3 the closing. This shape outperforms the alternative ("three techniques, one per paragraph") because it tracks the writer's case as a cumulative argument.

1. Embed the quotation into your own clause. 2. Name the technique using specific metalanguage (rhetorical question, inclusive language, anaphora, appeal to authority).

If the text has any visual element (image, pull-quote, graph, headline), the commentary must analyse it. For each:

The same shape and conventions apply, scaled. Year 11 markers reward:

Three techniques, one per paragraph. Treats techniques as items rather than moves serving a case.

Contention sentence.

The opening moves of the text. For each technique:

The middle moves. Often a tonal shift or argument escalation.

The closing moves, including any visual / multimodal element.

Reassert what the cumulative case attempts.

Treats techniques as items rather than moves serving a case.

A commentary mirrors the text under analysis; it is not an essay about it.

"Makes the reader feel sympathetic." Specify what kind of sympathy, to whom, with what consequence.

A text with an image whose visual is not analysed is half-read.