OCR: Scholarship in Homer's Odyssey

I don't unfortunately :( But most of the essays I wrote for the 30 markers for the World of the Hero generally followed the structure below. If I knew what you were struggling with when writing each of the 10/20/30 markers I could help, but for 20/30 markers I generally had the same structure (without the scholarship for 20 markers), which you can see in most of my example essays: Introduction Paragraph 1: (Repeated x3 at least) Themed topic sentence in order of what you believe to be the most important vs least important (maximises time too since you can spend considerably longer on the first two paragraphs and dedicate some of the time you still have left to writing a paragraph to the idea you believe to be the weakest) Evidence – talk about the strongest piece of evidence you have for that question first Analysis – why is it important/what does it show/reveal about the person/theme/idea in the question? Techniques used to show/reveal what is being asked for in the question? Link – Scholarship/Context Evidence – any further evidence to support your initial analysis and what scholars have said? i.e. ‘’Scholar X’’ is wrong to argue that Odysseus is a good leader, since in his addition to wanting to heighten his kleos during the encounter with Scylla and Charybdis, he fails to acknowledge his crew had already been dismayed by the events in Polyphemus’ cave, yet still continued to progress in his attempts to fight both monsters, despite being told by Circe that he had no real chance Links to Reader/Audience – what would Homer’s/Virgil’s audience believe about the actions of the characters – perceived in a likeable light in relation to the question (can also provide some scholarship here) Summarise – short sentence summarising why this shows the character/theme in question to be good/bad? Conclusion Summarise your main arguments and link them back to the question – why does all of the evidence show that a character/theme is good/bad?

For the 10 markers, since you're generally asked to focus on a passage and its associated ideas look for the following - found it to be helpful when I struggled to find lot's of evidence relating to the question, but still allowed me to refer to ''Passage B'': DESCRIPTION – Is it in depth? Think about the vocabulary being used to describe. EPITHETS PACE INTEREST CHARACTERISATION – Why are they memorable? (Only if a character question) TONE SIMILIES