Young and dyslexic

Question 1

‘Shut up stupid boy’

Answer 1

Aggressive insults reinforcing the view that the system didn’t support Zephaniah

Sibilance-harsh

Question 2

‘The past is a different kind of country’

Answer 2

A metaphor to iterate that the way of thinking was almost foreign

Contrasts the past with the present using a metaphor to show how times have changed

Question 3

‘No compassion, no understanding and no humanity’

Answer 3

A group of three to emphasise how teachers viewed dyslexia

Use of tricolon emphasises how hard it was back then+makes it more memorable

Creates sympathy for the writer

Repetition of no further emphasise what was lacking

Question 4

‘a high percentage of the prison population…a high percentage of the architect population.’

Answer 4

Parallelism

The use of contrast between two different parts of society who have a high percentage of being dyslexic to increase our understanding of its scale