by melaniewp | Mar 23, 2013 | An Inspector Calls, Exam Essays, GCSE, Main GCSE Texts Likely Exam Questions
These are a mixture of extract questions and standard exam questions for AQA and OCR GCSE on An Inspector Calls.+ Get more An Inspector Calls Resources, Quotes and Essays hereJANUARY 2011 EITHER Question 17How does Priestley show that tension...
by melaniewp | Mar 22, 2013 | 0 FOR KIDS, 11 plus, Common Entrance, Creative Writing, GCSE, IGCSE, KS2, KS3, Literature, Pathetic Fallacy, personification, Poetry, Setting, Technical Terms, Writing
Pathetic Fallacy is a technique for creating atmosphere in a story.Emotions are given to setting, objects and / or weather. This often reflects the main character(s)’ mood, or the mood of the book e.g. stormy emotions are externalised in a physical...
by melaniewp | Mar 22, 2013 | 0 FOR KIDS, 11 plus, Common Entrance, GCSE, KS2, KS3, Literature, Poetry, Semantic Fields, Technical Terms
A semantic field is a group of words that belong together – like sheep in a field. You can find it in a poem, play, novel or any other type of text. Read through and underline words with a similar meaning. For example:[1] cling, possessive, stay > Here,...
by melaniewp | Mar 20, 2013 | Metaphor, Prezis, Writers Techniques
Metaphors are everywhere. But they can be very tricky to understand. So what is a metaphor?Me: What’s a metaphor?Kid: Um – dunno – is it – um, I think I know the other one. Does it begin with an s-?Me: You mean a simile?Kid: Maybe? I guess.Me:...
by melaniewp | Mar 19, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, OCR, Poetry, Simon Armitage
Brief Summary (scroll down for a top grade analysis)This poem is in the third person, summing up a man’s life from the outside. There is very little emotive language, it’s all clean and without judgement. It reads like a list of the man’s qualities,...
