Language If you are asked to comment on how language is used in the extract, do you know what it means?

It means, write about the words and techniques used by the writer. What techniques might they be talking about?

Techniques Make sure you know what all these words mean. Copy the list down into your books and write one example of each. 1.Noun 8 Rhetorical question 2.Adjective 3.Verb and adverb 4.Simile 5.List of three 6.Alliteration 7.Emotive language

The animals confess Let’s look at the extract where the animals confess and answer the language question. You will have 15 minutes to answer the question. You will be aiming to make 5 different points. How will you go about it?

Chapter 7 The four pigs waited, trembling, with guilt written on every line of their countenances. Napoleon now called upon them to confess their crimes. They were the same four pigs as had protested when Napoleon abolished the Sunday Meetings. Without any further prompting they confessed that they had been secretly in touch with Snowball ever since his expulsion, that they had collaborated with him in destroying the windmill, and that they had entered into an agreement with him to hand over Animal Farm to Mr. Frederick. They added that Snowball had privately admitted to them that he had been Jones's secret agent for years past. When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess. The three hens who had been the ringleaders in the attempted rebellion over the eggs now came forward and stated that Snowball had appeared to them in a dream and incited them to disobey Napoleon's orders. They, too, were slaughtered. Then a goose came forward and confessed to having secreted six ears of corn during the last year's harvest and eaten them in the night. Then a sheep confessed to having urinated in the drinking pool -urged to do this, so she said, by Snowball - and two other sheep confessed to having murdered an old ram, an especially devoted follower of Napoleon, by chasing him round and round a bonfire when he was suffering from a cough. They were all slain on the spot. And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones. Comment on how language is used in the extract to portray violence and fear. (12 marks = 15 minutes)

Extension Have a look at the second extract and answer this on your own. How does the author use language to show … in this extract. Don’t forget to PEEE!

Extract taken from pages About this time there occurred a strange incident which hardly anyone was able to understand. One night at about twelve o'clock there was a loud crash in the yard, and the animals rushed out of their stalls. It was a moonlit night. At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint- brush, and an overturned pot of white paint. The dogs immediately made a ring round Squealer, and escorted him back to the farmhouse as soon as he was able to walk. None of the animals could form any idea as to what this meant, except old Benjamin, who nodded his muzzle with a knowing air, and seemed to understand, but would say nothing. But a few days later Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was `No animal shall drink alcohol,' but there were two words that they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read: `No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.‘ Comment on how language is used in the extract to show the reader understand what is happening to the animals. (12 marks = 15 minutes)

Plenary How do you answer the language question on the paper?