This is question 1 in your Media Non-Fiction Paper
Get someone(parents/siblings/friends) to find a newspaper article (Guardian and Times are pretty good) and to ask a question on it. For example
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/22/barbara-ellen-comedy
- According to the above article - what current criticisms are there about comedians
Then you bullet point the answers to the question - taking care to make sure it's in your own words.
You could even go one further and get the person to set you a two part question (which is common in the exam) such as:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article6924233.ece
- What advancements are Google making and what are the problems that are going to be caused by this?
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Sunday, 22 November 2009
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Poetry Revision Tips
General tips for looking at poems
1. What is the poem about?
Try to summarise the main subject of the poem in one or two lines
2. Who is speaking in the poem? To whom?
Is it the poet’s voice speaking in the poem or is the voice of someone else? Who is the poet speaking to? Are they speaking to you? To themselves? Is there another voice in the poem?
3. How does the poem convey its message?
Verses – what can you say about the poem’s appearance? Why has the poet presented it in this way?
Imagery – what are the main images? Which are particularly striking? Are there any comparisons? similes?, metaphors?, personification?
Alliteration/Assonance – how do repeated consonant or vowel sounds affect the sound of the poem?
Rhythm/Rhyme – what effect do the rhymes have? How does the poem move? Does it have a light rhythm, slow rhythm?
Punctuation – what does this tell you about how the poem should be read?
Mood – what is the mood of the poem?
4. Why do you think the poet has written the poem?
How does the poet feel about the reader? Are you being pleaded with, mocked, laughed at, preached to? Is the poem trying to move you, persuade you, entertain you?
5. What is your personal response to the poem?
How did you react to the poem? Did it move you, make you think/feel? Do you think the poem is effective?
1. What is the poem about?
Try to summarise the main subject of the poem in one or two lines
2. Who is speaking in the poem? To whom?
Is it the poet’s voice speaking in the poem or is the voice of someone else? Who is the poet speaking to? Are they speaking to you? To themselves? Is there another voice in the poem?
3. How does the poem convey its message?
Verses – what can you say about the poem’s appearance? Why has the poet presented it in this way?
Imagery – what are the main images? Which are particularly striking? Are there any comparisons? similes?, metaphors?, personification?
Alliteration/Assonance – how do repeated consonant or vowel sounds affect the sound of the poem?
Rhythm/Rhyme – what effect do the rhymes have? How does the poem move? Does it have a light rhythm, slow rhythm?
Punctuation – what does this tell you about how the poem should be read?
Mood – what is the mood of the poem?
4. Why do you think the poet has written the poem?
How does the poet feel about the reader? Are you being pleaded with, mocked, laughed at, preached to? Is the poem trying to move you, persuade you, entertain you?
5. What is your personal response to the poem?
How did you react to the poem? Did it move you, make you think/feel? Do you think the poem is effective?
Death of a Salesman Quotations
Important Quotations
Find each of these quotations. Who says them? To whom? What is the significance of these quotations within the play as a whole?
… he thinks I’m nothing, see, and so he spites me. But the funeral … Ben, that funeral will be massive.
A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
Be liked and you will never want.
Gee, look at the moon moving between the buildings.
He had the wrong dreams. All, all wrong.
He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.
I can see it like a diamond, shining in the dark, hard and rough, that I can pick up and touch in my hand. Not like – like an appointment.
I know you laugh at me behind my back.
I never got anywhere because you blew me so full of hot air I could never stand taking orders from anybody!
I realised what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
I still feel kinda temporary about myself.
I thank Almighty God that you’re both built like Adonises. Because the man who creates an appearance in the business world is the man who gets ahead.
I’m a dime a dozen, and so are you.
I’m not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you.
I’m not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There’s a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.
I’ve got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing’s planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.
In those days there was personality in it, … There was respect, and comradeship, and gratitude in it.
It’s Brooklyn, I know, but we hunt too.
Nothing’ll grow any more.
The gist of it is that I haven’t got a story left in my head.
The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell.
They time them so when you finally paid for them, they’re used up.
Why must everybody conquer the world?
Will you take that phoney dream and burn it before something happens?
Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It’s the only dream you can have – to come out number-one man.
Willy, dear, what has he got against you?
You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away – a man is not a piece of fruit.
You fake! You phoney little fake! You fake!
Find each of these quotations. Who says them? To whom? What is the significance of these quotations within the play as a whole?
… he thinks I’m nothing, see, and so he spites me. But the funeral … Ben, that funeral will be massive.
A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
Be liked and you will never want.
Gee, look at the moon moving between the buildings.
He had the wrong dreams. All, all wrong.
He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.
I can see it like a diamond, shining in the dark, hard and rough, that I can pick up and touch in my hand. Not like – like an appointment.
I know you laugh at me behind my back.
I never got anywhere because you blew me so full of hot air I could never stand taking orders from anybody!
I realised what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
I still feel kinda temporary about myself.
I thank Almighty God that you’re both built like Adonises. Because the man who creates an appearance in the business world is the man who gets ahead.
I’m a dime a dozen, and so are you.
I’m not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you.
I’m not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There’s a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.
I’ve got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing’s planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.
In those days there was personality in it, … There was respect, and comradeship, and gratitude in it.
It’s Brooklyn, I know, but we hunt too.
Nothing’ll grow any more.
The gist of it is that I haven’t got a story left in my head.
The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell.
They time them so when you finally paid for them, they’re used up.
Why must everybody conquer the world?
Will you take that phoney dream and burn it before something happens?
Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It’s the only dream you can have – to come out number-one man.
Willy, dear, what has he got against you?
You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away – a man is not a piece of fruit.
You fake! You phoney little fake! You fake!
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