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
- Identify the narrator’s/author’s main points.
- 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.
- Identify some narrative techniques (write 3 – 5 sentences).
- What is the character’s tone and attitude?
- Does the author use symbols; metaphors; similes; personification; allusions; juxtapositions; comparisons; alliteration?
- What narrative elements are evident? – dialogue, monologue, discussion, narrative recounts and stories/anecdotes.
- Learn four new expressions (words and phrases). Write these phrases in your own sentence.
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