by melaniewp | Mar 24, 2013 | 0 FOR KIDS, 11 plus, Common Entrance, GCSE, IGCSE, KS2, KS3, Literature, Onomatopoeia, Poetry, Technical Terms, Writing
Onomatopoeia = a word that sounds like what it describes. Crash, bang, thump, boom, bang, hiss, plop, whistle, rustle, are the clearest examples.Can little kids learn it?Of course. Give them felt pens and get them to draw how they think the words should look....
by melaniewp | Mar 23, 2013 | An Inspector Calls, Exam Essays, Extract Question, GCSE
In a play, it’s all about the way characters present themselves – what they say and what they do, how others see them, and hidden truths that are slowly revealed. Always comment on how characters change, and their moods. Then think how is the author...
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 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,...
