The document provides sentence starters and structural elements for analyzing a poem or text. It includes prompts for discussing the opening, language used, themes presented, and how the piece concludes to convey its overall meaning. Suggestions are made for pointing to evidence from the text and explaining the techniques and impressions crafted by the writer through their word choices.

1. SENTENCE STARTERS…
POINT EVIDENCE EXPLAIN ANAYLSE
In ‘…………………..’ written in the
The poem/text opens with
form of a………………, the writer
the…
presents…
This creates the impression… The word………..suggests…
In the first paragraph/stanza
the writer/poet uses…
For instance, when the writer
describes the ……………as…
This is demonstrated by… The words…. and…. are an
example of…………..which
highlight…………Other people
could argue that………….
The writer uses………….to
accentuate…
For example, when She/he
says…………
This makes me feel that… The word ‘………’ suggests……….
(verb, noun, adjective, adverb)
The writer uses [chose one
type of punctuation] to
This is evident when she/he
says….
This makes you realise… Alternatively, the word….could
have been used to emphasise ……
In the final paragraph/stanza,
the speaker is presented as…
The poem/text finishes with
the………
This suggests that… It is evidently clear by the writer’s
use of language that the speaker…