Paper 1 comprehension tips (1 Viewer)

[SadCeliac]

Hi all,

Does anyone have a good list of techniques we should always look out for when analysing texts? Not just basic "imagery, metaphor, personification, rhetoric, alliteration, allusion" etc etc, but like more advanced niche things not many people talk about? Idk an example would probably be like synecdoche, considering I only learnt about it via Eliot lol

Anyways, thanks guys
English sucks I hate it

 

[SASH_06_X]

Hi all,

Does anyone have a good list of techniques we should always look out for when analysing texts? Not just basic "imagery, metaphor, personification, rhetoric, alliteration, allusion" etc etc, but like more advanced niche things not many people talk about? Idk an example would probably be like synecdoche, considering I only learnt about it via Eliot lol

Anyways, thanks guys
English sucks I hate it

It would take me too long to write them down here, but use this link to help you: https://www.matrix.edu.au/essential-guide-english-techniques/the-literary-techniques-toolkit/

It's got practically every technique you need to know for HSC English summarised and has been super useful to me in learning them, never mind that I forget over half of them when I enter the exam hall.

 

[synthesisFR]

u dont need anything crazy/niche for doing good in comprehensionn lol (p.s synecdoche is not one of those niche techniques)
i think thats part of the reason why ppl doing ext 1 english tend to struggle more with comprehension more my friends were telling me they started going into literary critical movement and analysisng the texts through those lens which is not only unnecessary but also a waste of time
i got 20/20 for trials and i didn't have a set list that i used it was just anything from the text that i could identify which fit the question and built on.

 

[SadCeliac]

alrighty thanks guys

u dont need anything crazy/niche for doing good in comprehensionn lol (p.s synecdoche is not one of those niche techniques)

when I meant niche I meant like not commonly used
did you really know synecdoche before mod b????

 

[synthesisFR]

alrighty thanks guys


when I meant niche I meant like not commonly used
did you really know synecdoche before mod b????

i learnt it in like y7 idk

 

[nsw..wollongong]

just say visceral imagery or judacious language or extended metaphor (like just embellish basic ass techniques) u don't need anything too over the top, no one cares abt epizeuxis and all that ish