Parallel Comparison Things to consider:

1. Parallel Comparison Things to consider: • Literary Devices ( 3 total / they are used in both poems) • Six examples total (one from each poem) • Citations • Past Vs. Present tense

2. SAMPLE: • Thesis: Although both Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Southey, authors of “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and “The Battle of Blenheim”, utilize repetition, visual imagery, and dialogue in their poems Southey’s use of these devices creates stronger images, thus creating a more powerful poem. Structure of body paragraphs • 1stb.p.: Repetition • 2ndb.p: Visual imagery • 3rdb.p.: Dialogue

3. Constructing the 1st body paragraph Thesis: Although both Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Southey, authors of “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and “The Battle of Blenheim”, utilize repetition, visual imagery, and dialogue in their poems Southey’s use of these devices creates stronger images, thus creating a more powerful poem. • Repetition • Compare  Repetition is found… • CLB Example: • BOB Example:

4. Constructing the 1st body paragraph Thesis: Although both Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Southey, authors of “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and “The Battle of Blenheim”, utilize repetition, visual imagery, and dialogue in their poems Southey’s use of these devices creates stronger images, thus creating a more powerful poem. • Contrast  • Each author uses them to create power: The purpose of repetition/its power and how Southey uses rep in creating a more powerful image… The authors’ use the device in the same way but the effect or image is different: Utilized at the end of stanzas…Southey’s impact by not using it at the end of every stanza allows for a more powerful image because…

5. Topic sentences • Tennyson and Southey both utilize repetition (how/where in the poem), but Southey’s use is… (what?) • Because of (what?) • Both authors use repetition = THIS IS NOT A TOPIC SENTENCE!!! • Remember: Argumentative. Proving. Pull from your thesis!!