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

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• 1st b.p.: Repetition

• 2nd b.p: Visual imagery • 3rd b.p.: Dialogue

Constructing the 1st body paragraph

• Repetition• Compare Repetition is found…• CLB Example:

• BOB Example:

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.

Constructing the 1st body paragraph• 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…

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.

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!!