SPOT THE TECHNIQUE English Prep Task
The goal of this week’s prep is to ensure you have adequate annotations in your workbook.
a) Find the following quotes in your copy of each non-fiction text
b) Underline or highlight as a language OR structure technique
c) Label IN YOUR PINK BOOKS with the correct technique.
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Language Techniques
Metaphor
Alliteration
Simile
Personification
Imagery
Pathetic fallacy *when the weather
mimics the mood of a piece of
writing
Emotive language
Rhetorical Question
Rule of 3
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Structural Techniques
Long sentence
Opening sentence
Single-word sentence
Short sentence
1st person perspective
3rd person perspective
Direct address
Ellipsis
Dialogue
127 Hours
1. I come to another drop-off.
2. Nothing.
3. I grimace and growl
4. I’m frantic, and I cry out …
5. Time dilates, as if I’m dreaming.
H is for Hawk
1. “We’ll check the ring numbers against the Article 10s,” he explained.
2. and instead of twittering, she wailed; great awful gouts of sound like a thing in pain.
3. her wild eyes were the colour of the sun on white paper
4. and in a strange coincidence of world and deed a great flood of sunlight drenches us
5. And with the last bow pulled free, he reached inside, and amidst a whirring, chaotic clatter
of wings and feet and talons and a high-pitched twittering and it’s all happening at once, the
man pulls an enormous, enormous hawk out of the box and in a strange coincidence of
world and deed a great flood of sunlight drenches us and everything is brilliance and fury.
Young and Dyslexic
1. I had poems in my head even then.
2. But I think staying out of prison is about conquering your fears and finding your path in life.
3. If you’re dyslexic and you feel there’s something holding you back, just remember: it’s not
you.
4. “Bloody non-dyslexics… who do they think they are?”
5. This requires being creative and so your creativity muscle gets bigger.
The Explorer’s Daughter
1. The women clustered on the knoll of the lookout, binoculars pointing in every direction,
each woman focusing on her husband or family member, occasionally spinning round at a
small gasp or jump as one of the women saw a hunter near a narwhal.
2. And yet at the same time my heart also urged the narwhal to dive, to leave, to survive.
3. “How can you possibly eat seal?”
4. That … was why the hunters had to sit so very still in the water.