In Mrs Tilchers Class

Question 1

You

Answer 1

Second person narrative

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

Question 2

Blue Nile

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Route –>
While

Answer 3

Enjambment
Helps reflect the act of learning

Question 4

Chanted the scenery

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Skittle of milk

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Chalky pyramids rubbed into dust

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Long pole

Answer 7

Specific detail keeps it real
Old fashioned

Question 8

Laugh of a bell swung by a running child

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

This was better than home

Answer 9

Certainty of childhood safety of class
Loves school
hyperbole

Question 10

Enthralling books

Answer 10

Captivating
Exciting
What they were being taught kept them interested

Question 11

The classroom glowed like a sweet shop

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Sugar paper. Coloured shaped. Brady and hindley

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Like the faint uneasy smudge of a mistake

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

Mrs tilscher loved you

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Good gold star by your name

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Scent of a pencil

Answer 16

Minor sentence.ready to learn
Appealing to the readers scent

Question 17

Slowly carefully shaved

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Xylophones nonsense

Answer 18

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

Question 19

over the easter term

Answer 19

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

Question 20

the inky tadpoles

Answer 20

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

Question 21

changed from commas to exclamation marks

Answer 21

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

Question 22

jumping and croaking

Answer 22

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

Question 23

a rough boy told you how you were born

Answer 23

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

Question 24

you kicked him

Answer 24

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

Question 25

stared at your parents , appalled ,

Answer 25

image of parents shattered
parenthesis feeling of disgust adding to her horror.
complex sentence reveals complext thought to the reader

Question 26

that feverish july

Answer 26

ending of primary school
agitated mood
children are excited to go to secondary school
day dream

Question 27

air tasted of electricity

Answer 27

new energy and excitement
danger but also eagerness
threat of storm connotes difficult time in puberty

Question 28

Tangible alarm

Answer 28

warning that everything is about to change. change of bell to alarm
Scary
Indicates stress and excitement

Question 29

hot, fractious under the heavy, sexy sky

Answer 29

hormones changing with puberty
speaker feels uncomfortable experiencing the start of puberty.

Question 30

then turned away

Answer 30

mrs tilscher’s job is done. you’re on your own. enjambment reflects the distance between teacher and student

Question 31

reports were handed out

Answer 31

tone change magical to ordinary. reality sets in. she is unbothered by the results, she’s ready to leave

Question 32

you ran through the gates

Answer 32

ready for the next stage in life
run into the next stage of your life
“run” desire to leave.

Question 33

sky split open into a thunderstorm

Answer 33

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