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Title: How important are structural devices in my essays?
Post by: shiba woof woof on October 10, 2017, 09:40:56 pm

Hi All,

Just wondering, hope important are structural devices in my Text Response and Comparative essays.

At school, my teachers always wanted at least one per paragraph - but how important are they for the exam?
Sometimes it gets really hard to place structural elements into my paragraphs, especially for Medea... :(

Of course i'll use structural devices throughout my essay, but just how much do i need to put in? Are they extremely important?

Thanks guys!

Title: Re: How important are structural devices in my essays?
Post by: LifeisaConstantStruggle on October 10, 2017, 10:18:22 pm

It really depends on your prompt and the text you're doing.
But for Medea, structural devices (and Greek metalanguage) are an integral part of the text. As you are analysing an Ancient Greek play many of the structural and historical contexts of the piece are different if you compare it to the modern era, with actual Athenian male audiences, (the only input for them is verbal language/structural devices) mentioning and analysing your text through structural devices can be very helpful in enhancing the quality of your essays.
If you're doing a film in your comparative the importance of visual analyses is self-explanatory, and for texts like "Tracks", it's useful and better to compare the structural devices used between both texts.
Lacking these devices/metalanguage wouldn't necessarily hurt your mark in any way, but if you acknowledge and analyse the structural aspect of your text your chances of scoring high will be much higher (just a personal opinion)