‘After Dark’: exploring Murakami’s extended metaphor

English

In 'Fiction: Read Around the World', pupils identify and comment on a range of language devices in extracts from texts. In 'Fiction: Science Fiction Writing', pupils identify and comment on recurring images and symbolism in texts.

In 'A World at War: Short Stories', pupils read short stories, analysing how authors structure full texts. In 'Fiction: Read Around the World', pupils analyse structural choices in smaller extracts of texts.

In this unit, pupils read extracts from four novels from around the world, and use them to develop their narrative writing. In particular, pupils explore writers' use of structure. At the end of the unit, pupils consider their own use of paragraphs for effect and write an engaging narrative.

Fiction: read around the world

a metaphor that extends over multiple lines of a text

something that is characterised by constant change or activity

to create a persistent image of something

In 'Ozymandias', Shelley uses the semantic field of ...

Why might Murakami have used the semantic field of biology in 'After Dark'?

Through the use of an extended metaphor, what effect does Murakami create in 'After Dark'?

Which word adds to the image of the city as dynamic in Murakami's 'After Dark'?

Which group of words are most related in meaning?

What theme links all of these words: river, sea, sand, grass?

comparing two things using the word 'like' or 'as'

the continuation of a sentence beyond the end of a line

a figure of speech that involves comparing two things using the verb 'to be'

What is a possible meaning of the following metaphor: 'Her voice is sunshine.'?

analysing similes and metaphors in a text

looking closely at and carefully unpicking complex parts of a text

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