In Mrs Tilchers Class Flashcards
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Second person narrative
addressing herself and her own memories
Effect involves the reader in experiences
Blue Nile
Exotic and powerful instantly appealing to the readers senses. The reader and child were fully engaged with mrs tilchers teachings
Route –>
While
Enjambment
Helps reflect the act of learning
Chanted the scenery
Auditory experience. Universal event. young child’s imagination so that they will follow her on the adventure of learning
Caesura reflects changing bringing lesson to life
Skittle of milk
shape of bottle but also suggests playing a game.
Highlights Playful nature of experience
Chalky pyramids rubbed into dust
Blackboard. Just as the pyramids are huge monuments so too are the dust piles large from so much learning
Erased easily like innocence of a child. Metaphor for how easily mistakes are forgotten
Long pole
Specific detail keeps it real
Old fashioned
Laugh of a bell swung by a running child
End of a school day
Personification of the bell
Transferred epithet highlights fun
Child laughing at a bell
carefree world, where children are free to grow and find themselves within a nurturing setting.
This was better than home
Certainty of childhood safety of class
Loves school
hyperbole
Enthralling books
Captivating
Exciting
What they were being taught kept them interested
The classroom glowed like a sweet shop
Enchanting magical
Wonder for children shows their excitement in classroom is full of things to trigger the children’s interest and imagination.
Sugar paper. Coloured shaped. Brady and hindley
Nostalgic details, leading to others
Appealing to taste appealing to sight.
Juxtaposed with positive environment with the serial killers and their victims and were children.
Monsters outside the classroom
Like the faint uneasy smudge of a mistake
Protected because they are in the classroom. The love of the classroom overpowered the evil. But she can not get rid of them completely as there is still a smudge.
Mrs tilscher loved you
Direct address shows how much she cares
Made it known that she did
Childish voice/innocent
Good gold star by your name
Appealing to inner child, nostalgic
Provides a sticker to show her love
Alliteration shows the attention to detail and how important it was to the speaker
Scent of a pencil
Minor sentence.ready to learn
Appealing to the readers scent
Slowly carefully shaved
List echos motion of pencil.
Reflects time waisting in the class to chat to friends
Having to concentrate
She took pride in her work as she does every thing on purpose
Xylophones nonsense
Personification
Kids playing loudly
Can’t play the instrument correctly
Nonsense reflects on the positive outlook on primary school
over the easter term
change in tone. change in time, turning into young adults ready to leave primary school.introduces the theme of change Easter term, a time of growth and regeneration
the inky tadpoles
metaphor for puberty and sexual development
just as tadpoles grow into frogs so too were the children changing and maturing into young adults
changed from commas to exclamation marks
commas relate back to school
insignificant “comma” to the bolder (and taller) “exclamation”
shock of changing
jumping and croaking
further suggests puberty voice breaking
children being compared to frogs, innocent and energetic
ready to leave the classroom. jumping out
a rough boy told you how you were born
catalyst for change, tells her about adult knowledge. outside you’re not safe, lack of knowledge of the world.
you kicked him
angry at the reality of life. short sentence reveals how she feels she doesn’t know how to process emotional outburst. disbelief and fear a childish reaction
stared at your parents , appalled ,
image of parents shattered
parenthesis feeling of disgust adding to her horror.
complex sentence reveals complext thought to the reader
that feverish july
ending of primary school
agitated mood
children are excited to go to secondary school
day dream
air tasted of electricity
new energy and excitement
danger but also eagerness
threat of storm connotes difficult time in puberty
Tangible alarm
warning that everything is about to change. change of bell to alarm
Scary
Indicates stress and excitement
hot, fractious under the heavy, sexy sky
hormones changing with puberty
speaker feels uncomfortable experiencing the start of puberty.
then turned away
mrs tilscher’s job is done. you’re on your own. enjambment reflects the distance between teacher and student
reports were handed out
tone change magical to ordinary. reality sets in. she is unbothered by the results, she’s ready to leave
you ran through the gates
ready for the next stage in life
run into the next stage of your life
“run” desire to leave.
sky split open into a thunderstorm
pathetic fallacy leads to speakers feelings feels like a dangerous storm
metaphor show dramatic feelings about growing up scary/dramatic
“split” cant go back, don’t have the option loss of innocence
