Year 9
Language Analysis: Ten Minutes' musing by Alice Dunbar Nelson
Year 9
Language Analysis: Ten Minutes' musing by Alice Dunbar Nelson
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Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will focus on a short extract from 'Ten Minutes' Musing' by Alice Dunbar Nelson. We will explore how the writer uses structure to communicate particular ideas and effects in 'Ten Minutes' Musing'.
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7 Questions
Q1.
When you analyse structure you should explore...
the effect of techniques such as simile and metaphor.
the words and phrases the writer is using.
Q2.
Is this statement true or false? "When you look at the structure of a text you just need to summarise what happens."
true
Q3.
True or false: The story is narrated by the principal.
true
Q4.
True or false: The narrator describes the boys playing football.
false
Q5.
True or false: The writer uses a first-person narrator.
false
Q6.
Change of focus is an example of a:
language device
Q7.
Metaphors are an example of a:
structural device
7 Questions
Q1.
In Ten Minutes' Musing by Alice Dunbar Nelson, which words could be used to describe the mob of boys?
bored
calm
excitable
savage
uncontrollable
Q2.
Which subject terminology might you use when analysing this quotation: "Nearly every boy in the school was in that seething, swarming mass,"
nouns
simile
verbs
Q3.
Select the correct definition of a polysyndetic list.
A polysyndetic list uses a comma after every term in the list.
Q4.
Which subject terminology might you use when analysing this quotation: “It was a mob that screamed and howled, and kicked, and yelled, and shouted, and perspired, and squirmed…”
polysyndetic list of adjectives
polysyndetic list of nouns
Q5.
True or false? Some boys are standing on the sides, screaming and laughing.
false
Q6.
True or false? They boys seem out of control but purposeful.
false
Q7.
True or false? The boys are calm and skilful with the ball
true