English Essentials - Next Level Knowledge - What is a Comparative Essay? (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)

Ready to master comparative essays? In this lesson, we’lll explain what a comparative essay is and the types of questions you could encounter. We’ll teach you how to approach questions based on context, techniques, textual form, authorial purpose, and themes. To help us, we’ve compared two famous, tragic love stories: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.Language forms/features: paradox, symbolism, tragedy, imagery, narrative point of view, textual hybridity, five-act structure, stage directions, monologues, soliloquies, Modernism, stream of consciousness, poetic elegy, reader response theory