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Quick questions on Comparing texts across genre and form explained: H2 Literature in English
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What is treat each form's conventions as evidence?Show answer
Every form offers tools the others do not. Learn to name them and use them:
What are be fair to both forms?Show answer
A frequent danger is reading one form on the terms of another, for example praising a poem for "developing its characters" (a novelistic value) or faulting a play for "telling us less" than prose. The discipline is to judge each text by what its form is built to do. Fair comparison sets the compression of the lyric beside the extension of the novel as two different, legitimate ways of shaping experience, and asks what each achieves.
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Why is a difference in form an advantage rather than a problem in comparison? [2 marks]
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What does it mean to be "fair" to each form when comparing across genres? [2 marks]
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Give one cross-form contrast that often produces a strong thesis, and say why. [3 marks]
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