by melaniewp | Jul 14, 2022 | Common Entrance, GCSE, IGCSE, Pathetic Fallacy, Technical Terms
PATHETIC FALLACY is a type of imagery where weather is used to represent emotions. Any place that weather is used, you’ll usually find it. It is most commonly used to build tension, or to externalise a character’s internal (mental) state.EXERCISE:This extract is from...
by melaniewp | Jan 13, 2016 | Cambridge, Essay, IGCSE, Lady Mary Wroth, Literature, Poetry
IntroductionIn this poem, love is presented negatively through the personification of him as a ‘child’. The technique of juxtaposition dominates to show the contradictions of love, and ultimately that it is wise not to ‘seek’ him as he is prone to ‘flying’. What makes...
by melaniewp | Jan 13, 2016 | Cambridge, Essay, IGCSE, Poetry, Songs of Ourselves Volume 2
In ‘The Clod and the Pebble), love is presented as both selfish and selfless, through the symbols of the soft, humble ‘clod’ (of earth/dirt) and the clean, but hard ‘pebble’.Firstly in this poem, the ‘clod of clay’ sings about the selflessness of love and the...
by melaniewp | Oct 20, 2015 | Frankenstein, GCSE, IGCSE, KS3, Worksheet
LOOK FOR: metaphors – personification – similes (comparing)________________ her hair was the brightest living gold________________ fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles________________ Like a mountain river, it came from small sources, but...
by melaniewp | Oct 13, 2015 | 11+, Common Entrance, Creative Writing, GCSE, IGCSE, Writing to Describe
This works for 11+, Common Entrance, or for GCSE. If you need to ‘add more detail’ to your stories or descriptions need to be improved, try this picture exercise. The images are all from India and there’s plenty to describe, plus a list below of...
by melaniewp | Oct 10, 2015 | 2017, Frankenstein, GCSE, IGCSE
Michael Gove might have cruelly snatched Of Mice and Men from us, but teaching older, longer texts doesn’t have to be horrible. Here’s a super student-friendly version of Frankenstein, sensitively shortened to just over the length of Of Mice and Men, with...
