Half past two Flashcards
‘Once upon’
Evokes fairytales and juxtaposes fantasy of fairytale with the harshness of school
‘schooltime’
Compound words- lack of understanding
‘Something Very Wrong’
Capitalisation- lack of understanding/authority
Simple language and sentence structure
How the boy would think/speak
‘And She said he’d done Something Very Wrong’
Importance- God-like
‘she’d forgotten’
Disregarding
‘Gettinguptime, timeyouwereofftime, Timetogohomenowtime, TVtime’
Asyndetic listing- security in routine
‘Timeformykisstime (that was Grantime’
Indicates loving family
‘clock face, the little eyes and two long legs for walking’
Personification- emphasises innocence
‘Click’ it’s language
Onomatopoeia
‘he’d escaped forever’
Triumphant tone- escaped the confinement of the teacher’s punishment
‘Into the’
Anaphora- timeless void
‘air outside the window’
Image of freedom
‘Scuttling in’
Verb- Animal-like
‘Run along’
Imperative- dismissive tone
‘you’ll be late’
Return to conventional time
‘So she slotted him back into schooltime’
Sibilance- objectified
‘never forgot’
Important moment
‘clockless land’ ‘tick-less’
Metaphor- freedom of childhood
