Text-based exercises

Please work through the text-based exercises and send me some analytical sentences!

Text 1: Medea 

Text 2: I’m not Scared

Text 3: Growing Up Asian

Text 4: 12 Angry Men

Text 5: Animal Farm

Text 6: Lord of the Flies 

Analyse a Passage from a Text

1. Identify the narrator’s/author’s main points.  
2. What is the protagonist’s/character’s views?   Who or what are they criticising and why?.  Referring to at least three quotes, explain their purpose and their link to the character’s views.  
3. Identify some narrative techniques (write 3 – 5 sentences).  
   1. What is the character’s tone and attitude?
   2. Does the author use symbols; metaphors; similes; personification; allusions; juxtapositions; comparisons; alliteration?
   3. What narrative elements are evident?   – dialogue, monologue, discussion, narrative recounts and stories/anecdotes.  
4. Learn four new expressions (words and phrases).   Write these phrases in your own sentence.

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