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Comparing the texts

The document outlines various elements of text analysis, including types of texts (genres), themes, purposes, audiences, writer's attitudes, tones, moods, language, structure, tense, atmosphere, register, points of view, openings, endings, layouts, paragraph lengths, and organizational structures. It also provides sentence starters for comparing texts, highlighting similarities and differences. This comprehensive guide serves as a resource for understanding and analyzing different forms of writing.

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Comparing the texts

The document outlines various elements of text analysis, including types of texts (genres), themes, purposes, audiences, writer's attitudes, tones, moods, language, structure, tense, atmosphere, register, points of view, openings, endings, layouts, paragraph lengths, and organizational structures. It also provides sentence starters for comparing texts, highlighting similarities and differences. This comprehensive guide serves as a resource for understanding and analyzing different forms of writing.

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Comparing the texts

1. Types of text (Genre)

• advertisements • magazine articles

• reviews • biography or autobiography

• letters • obituaries

• diaries • speeches

• newspaper articles • travel writing

• information leaflets • reference books

• blog

2. Theme

Main Idea, Life Lesson

3. Purpose is what the writer is trying to achieve, for example:

• to entertain, explore, imagine • to persuade

• to inform, explain, describe • to argue

• to advise

4. Audience

Age & Interest

E.g. Teenagers, football fans, general public, people who are interested in…..

[It’s also useful to think about whether the form is for a public or private

audience. For example, a letter is usually for a private audience while a news

article is usually for a public audience. This will affect the purpose of the text

and the language choices made by the writer.]

5. Writer’s Attitude: Writer’s perspectives in relation to groups of people with

different attitudes.

• Biased (uses opinions)

• Unbiased (uses facts)


6. Tone (narrator’s attitude towards a subject)

e.g., humorous, serious, satirical, dramatic and exaggerated, regretful, full of

wonder and amazement, peaceful, happy, content or relaxed

7. Mood (Internal feeling, the feeling an event or a place gives you)

• Desperate, dangerous, sad

• Optimistic, enthusiastic, prepared

• Peaceful, calm, relaxing

8. Language

e.g., word choice, literary techniques, rhetorical devices

9. Structure

e.g., order of ideas, repetition, sentence structure

10. Tense

Present tense or retrospective (past tense)

11. Atmosphere (External situation)

The emotion audience feels from a passage

E.g., A grim and forbidding atmosphere)

12. Register (Form of language)

• Formal – passive, impersonal, precise

• Neutral

• Informal – Contraction, personal, friendly

[makes the reader feel engaged]


13. Point of view

• First person [Creates sense of realism/ immediacy]

• Second person [directly address the reader]

• Third person (Objective, Limited, Omniscient)

[Shows the writer is well-informed about…..]

14. Opening

• Setting the scene (Place/Time/Atmosphere)

• Introducing the character(s)

• Intriguing the reader (Unexpected statement/Summary of a situation/Famous

quotation/Direct question)

• Going straight to conflict

15. Ending

• A Cliffhanger e.g. But just at that moment, the phone rang.

• An unexpected twist e.g. The Wasteland ends with the man discovering that

his attacker was his own son.

• An open ending e.g. No one knows if they ever learned the truth.

• A sense of finality e.g. And that was the last time I ever saw my best friend.

16. Layout

Sub-heading; bullet points; graphs; pictures; font size; context

[Splits the piece up and makes it easier to read;

Gives more details;

Attracts reader's interest]

17. Paragraph Length

E.g., Single line paragraph

[To focus the reader]


18. Structure/Organization of text

• spatial order (Description)

• sequential order

• chronological order

• order of importance

• problem and solution

• compare and contrast

Sentence starters

Some key phrases can help you to compare texts.

Similarities Differences

Similarly… In contrast…

Equally… However,…

In the same way On the other hand,…

Just as... so does.... Alternatively…

Both... and... In a different way…

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