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What are ‘big’ authorial choices?
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What are ‘big’ authorial choices?
Whole-work decisions: form, structure, perspective, genre.
Why compare big choices?
They show you read each work as a designed whole — high-level analysis.
What must you always add?
The effect — never just name the choice.
Example of a structural choice?
Chronological order vs beginning at the end and working backwards.
Example of a perspective choice?
First-person vs omniscient vs unreliable vs multiple voices.
Example of a form choice?
A tight sonnet vs a sprawling novel.
Which criterion does this serve?
B1 — analysis of authorial choices (and B2 to compare them).
‘Architecture, not bricks’ means?
Compare whole-work design, not only line-level devices.
A genre choice to compare?
How each work uses or bends its genre's conventions (tragedy, satire…).
Common missed opportunity?
Only comparing small devices, never the big structural choices.
Topic 4.8 study notes
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