Close Reading and text analysis skills A.S. 3.5 External exam

Learning Intentions 1. We are learning to decode questions. 2. We are learning to explain the purpose and effect of specific language features of a poem.

Louis Johnson : Vision Make a prediction: What are 2 language features you would expect to find in this writing genre?

The title is the first clue to meaning vision

The title vision Physical Sense: sight imaginationcreativity Something new/ unusual/ unique personal perspective Seeing/ not- seeing

Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) – Spanish surrealist painter

Revising Language Techniques 12 Language techniques DefinitionExample from extract 1. emotive adverb Number 1 – 12 down your page. Allow 2 lines per row.

1.emotive adverb 2.dialogue 3.persona/ personae 4.metaphor 5.impersonal third person 6.enjambement 7.end-stopped line 8.animal imagery 9.repetition 10.abstract noun 11.colloquialism 12. parallel construction TASK 1 Identify and quote one example of each language technique used in the poem = 12 techniques.

TASK 2 Explain in your own words the difference between the child’s tone and the adult’s tone in lines 1-6, “Elephants … to be exact.”

TASK 3 What do TWO of the following symbols represent in this poem? i.colossal mammals (line 10) ii. the free flight of the bird’s migrating mind (line 14) iii. one who walks on rails (line 15) iv. paper flower (line 20) Do ii and iii.

TASK 4 With particular reference to the image “This is mere bread/ In a world that is made of cake” (lines 6-7), explain how the father sees the difference between his vision’ and his daughter’s ‘vision’. Give supporting evidence from the text to explain your ideas.

TASK 5 What change in the father’s ‘vision’ is expressed in the last sentence of the poem? “One needs ladders Or windows more, or a more sensual Heart which dares to seize the power To shinny trees with elephants or Waltz with adders.”

TASK 6 Both the prose extract and the poem deal with a relationship between a child and an adult. Compare and contrast TWO ways in which this relationship is presented.

Learning Intentions 1. We are learning to decode questions. 2. We are learning to explain the purpose and effect of specific language features of a poem.

Reflection on Learning Task 1. One thing I have learnt about decoding 3.5 questions is One question/ difficulty I still have is… 3. One thing I have learnt about explaining the purpose and effect of specific language features in a poem … 4. One question/ difficulty I still have is…