Year 9
Year 9
Analysing language in Jekyll and Hyde (Part 1)
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will read an extract from a very famous Gothic story 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson and then build on our ability to analyse language. We will then analyse how Stevenson uses language to present the setting before the murder. Then, we will end on a quiz exploring what you have learnt.
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5 Questions
Q1.
What does the narrator at first keep fixated on?
the lantern
the old man's voice
Q2.
How does the "vulture eye" make the narrator feel?
angry
nervous
Q3.
What does the narrator then fix his attention to?
he stays focused on the eye
how he will murder the old man
Q4.
What does the narrator do to the old man?
stares at him
violently attacks him
Q5.
Why does the narrator do this?
he is angry with the old man
wants to be rid of the old man
5 Questions
Q1.
What is a character introduction?
where a character is killed
where a writer uses dialogue with a character
Q2.
What is a spatial shift?
it is the same as setting
when a character moves
Q3.
What is foreshadowing?
when the reader knows what will happen because they have read the story before
when the writer lets the reader know something awful is about to happen
Q4.
What is repetition of an idea?
where the same phrase at the beginning of successive clauses is repeated
where words are repeated
Q5.
Why can setting be so important for a story?
makes a story more believable
so a reader knows where the characters are