Analysing how poets reflect desire in natural settings
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- Q1What does the word 'nuanced' mean?comprehensive, thorough, including many specifics or particularsuses a range of sentence types to engage the readeruncertain or provisional, subject to change or adjustmentsubtly different aspects or details, often with underlying complexity30s
- Q2To ensure your analysis is detailed, you should...Users sort answers between categoriesSorting30s
- Q3Identify the sentence fragment which is a participle phrase. 'Writing in the Georgian era, which was known to be patriarchal, Barrett Browning's writing often uses a strong, powerful female voice.'"strong, powerful""Writing in the Georgian, era which was known to be patriarchal,""which was known to be patriarchal""Writing""Barrett Browning's writing often uses a strong, powerful female voice"30s
- Q4Why do we use tentative language?Because we cannot ever be certain about why a writer made certain choices.It means we can get away with being a bit wrong.It's the way we traditionally structure analysis writing.Because a writer may change their mind about why they did something.Because we haven't read enough poetry to be sure.30s
- Q5Choose the best participle phrase to add to the beginning of this sentence. __________ Dooley uses 'Letters from Yorkshire' to consider the complexities of long-distance relationships.Exploring the theme of communication often in her poetry,Arguably a poem about unrequited romanceWritten in the twenty-first century,Believed to be one of the first Romantic poets,30s
- Q6Why is using advanced vocabulary important to ensuring your analysis writing is nuanced?Users sort answers between categoriesSorting30s