In Mrs Tilchers Class Flashcards

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You

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Second person narrative

addressing herself and her own memories
Effect involves the reader in experiences

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2
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Blue Nile

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Exotic and powerful instantly appealing to the readers senses. The reader and child were fully engaged with mrs tilchers teachings

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3
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Route –>
While

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Enjambment
Helps reflect the act of learning

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4
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Chanted the scenery

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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

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5
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Skittle of milk

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shape of bottle but also suggests playing a game.
Highlights Playful nature of experience

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Chalky pyramids rubbed into dust

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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

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7
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Long pole

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Specific detail keeps it real
Old fashioned

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8
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Laugh of a bell swung by a running child

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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.

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9
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This was better than home

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Certainty of childhood safety of class
Loves school
hyperbole

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10
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Enthralling books

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Captivating
Exciting
What they were being taught kept them interested

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The classroom glowed like a sweet shop

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Enchanting magical
Wonder for children shows their excitement in classroom is full of things to trigger the children’s interest and imagination.

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Sugar paper. Coloured shaped. Brady and hindley

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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

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13
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Like the faint uneasy smudge of a mistake

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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.

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14
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Mrs tilscher loved you

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Direct address shows how much she cares
Made it known that she did
Childish voice/innocent

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15
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Good gold star by your name

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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

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16
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Scent of a pencil

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Minor sentence.ready to learn
Appealing to the readers scent

17
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Slowly carefully shaved

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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

18
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Xylophones nonsense

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Personification
Kids playing loudly
Can’t play the instrument correctly
Nonsense reflects on the positive outlook on primary school

19
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over the easter term

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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

20
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the inky tadpoles

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metaphor for puberty and sexual development
just as tadpoles grow into frogs so too were the children changing and maturing into young adults

21
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changed from commas to exclamation marks

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commas relate back to school
insignificant “comma” to the bolder (and taller) “exclamation”
shock of changing

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jumping and croaking

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further suggests puberty voice breaking
children being compared to frogs, innocent and energetic
ready to leave the classroom. jumping out

23
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a rough boy told you how you were born

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catalyst for change, tells her about adult knowledge. outside you’re not safe, lack of knowledge of the world.

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you kicked him

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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

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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
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that feverish july
ending of primary school agitated mood children are excited to go to secondary school day dream
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air tasted of electricity
new energy and excitement danger but also eagerness threat of storm connotes difficult time in puberty
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Tangible alarm
warning that everything is about to change. change of bell to alarm Scary Indicates stress and excitement
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hot, fractious under the heavy, sexy sky
hormones changing with puberty speaker feels uncomfortable experiencing the start of puberty.
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then turned away
mrs tilscher's job is done. you're on your own. enjambment reflects the distance between teacher and student
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reports were handed out
tone change magical to ordinary. reality sets in. she is unbothered by the results, she's ready to leave
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you ran through the gates
ready for the next stage in life run into the next stage of your life "run" desire to leave.
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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