Step 1: Identify the narrator’s/author’s main points.
Step 2: Describe Jason’s attitude and tone. Who or what is he criticising and why? Referring to at least three quotes, explain their purpose and their link to the character’s views.
- eg. contemptuous; indignant; intransigent; condescending; patronising; belittling; dismissive
Step 3: Learn new words and phrases: use in a sentence.
Learn four new expressions (words and phrases). Write these phrases in your own sentence.
Jason says:
- “Enough of your scurrilous taunts” : insulting rude and not fair
- “A hurricane of recrimination”; an argument in which each blames the other for the wrongdoing
- “I find your attraction wearisome”; tiresome ; tiring.
- “I was dogged (followed by) and thwarted (stopped) by misfortune” ; overcome by.. stopped by…
- “To recount this would be invidious”; likely to cause resentment because of real or imagined injustice
- “My action was not swayed by passion”; moved by passion
Step 4: What narrative elements are evident? eg. metaphor of the “seamanship”. Use quotes and give explanations.
Other Exercises
Exercise 2: Medea: Medea’s speech p.
Exercise 3: Medea’s reasons
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