👋🏽 Hi, I’m Kerry. I teach CSEC English B at Arc School: live classes each week, lesson resources, exam practice and personalised coaching for your final exams. In this lesson, pay attention to how each device paragraph is built and the job each of its five parts does. Then write your own essay in your own words. Just don’t copy my sentences into your exam answer. Your answer has to show what you think.
In the last part of an essay, it’s easy to name a technique and leave it there. “This is dramatic irony.” “Orwell uses repetition.” Those sentences show that you know the word. The name is only the start.
What counts is the next sentence. It says what the technique does to the audience or reader, and why that matters to the question. I call it the so what. So that’s what we’ll work on today, in Twelfth Night and in Animal Farm.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
build a device paragraph with the five S’s
say what a technique does to the audience or reader at one moment
tie that effect to the words of the question
write the so what yourself on a moment you haven’t practised
In the full lesson, you’ll see a weak device paragraph beside a strong one on the opening lines of Twelfth Night. Then we’ll work through three more moments across both books, and you’ll write the so what yourself.
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Grab a pen. Here’s the move.