HALF PAST TWO Flashcards
‘He did Something Very Wrong’
Capitalisations
Shows the seriousness and he doesn’t quite understand
Childishness
‘Once upon a schooltime’
Fairytale opening
Childish
‘and She’
Capitalisation
Shows respect and importance
‘Time’
Personified abstract noun
Something important that he doesn’t understand
Represents childs perspective
Narrator?
Omniscient
‘at being wicked’
Sin
Free indirect discourse
Negative connotations
Emotive word
Shows guilty he feels for not understanding
‘two long legs for walking’
Consonance
‘L’ sounds slow pace
‘gettinguptime’
Compound words
Childish view/perspective
‘and then, My goodness, she said, Scuttling in, I forgot all about you’
No punctuation
Idea of childs perspective
‘he knew the clockface, the little eyes and two long legs for walking’
Anthropomorphisation
Giving the clock characteristics in an attempt to deal with it/understand it
‘he escaped into the clockless land’
Escaping from world where time traps him
‘into the smell of old chrysanthemums’
Synesthesia
Smells colours and sees sounds
Child’s mind doesn’t have rules
Rhyme/meter?
Free verse
Represents unstructured imagination of the child
What does the teacher represent?
Structure, solidity, order, discipline and rigidity
‘She… she’
Loses capital
Has lost respect and annoyed as she brought him back to the land with time
