by melaniewp | Mar 26, 2013 | Common Entrance, GCSE, How to Write an Essay, IGCSE, Technical Terms, What Teachers Say and What They Mean
If your teacher wrote:What effect does this create?You need to explore connotations, mood, and the effect that the word-pictures and imagery create for the reader. Maybe you’ve identified the techniques used but not explained the emotions or feelings that the...
by melaniewp | Mar 24, 2013 | Controlled Assessment, GCSE, Spoken Language, Technical Terms
This is a brief summary of the features of spoken language as used in the GCSE Controlled Assessment. Common transcripts used are:Interviews with the same person in different contexts – e.g. David Cameron interviewed about government policy between 7pm and 8pm,...
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 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 15, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, Poetry, Technical Terms
STRUCTUREstanza: like a ‘paragraph’ in a poem. Stanzas are separated by a line break. They may be regular, e.g. the same number of lines per stanza. Or irregular – broken up seemingly at random.regular poem = regular sized stanzas and/or regular line length...
