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Unit 4: Literary Texts, Contexts and Values
Quick questions on Comparative and intertextual analysis: WACE Year 12 Literature Unit 4
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What is intertextuality?Show answer
Intertextuality is when a text draws on, alludes to, or rewrites another. It can be direct (a deliberate retelling) or structural (sharing a form, a myth, or a convention). Reading a text intertextually lets you argue that meaning is partly produced by the relationship between texts. A retelling that gives a voice to a previously silent character is making an argument about the original, and naming that argument is high-level analysis.
What is structuring the comparison?Show answer
Plan a comparative thesis that names what the comparison reveals, then three ideas that each text treats differently. For each idea, decide which text you lead with and ensure both appear. Use comparative connectives precisely: whereas, by contrast, similarly, in answer to. These words are the visible joints of integration.
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