YOUNG AND DYSLEXIC Flashcards
‘as a child I suffered, but learned to turn dyslexia to my advantage’
Negative to positive
Microcosm of his argument
‘we are architects, we are designers’
Anaphore
Inclusive language
Directly addressing people with D
‘was no compassion, no understanding and no humanity’
Negative tricolon
Emphasises how bad it was
‘kind and thoughtful and listening’
Tricolon
Structurally contrasting two ways of teaching
‘shut up, stupid boy’
Personalised
Agressive tone
Direct quote
‘who are you talking bout savages?’
Rhetorical question
Strong element of racism in school
‘he was stereotyping me’
Identity
Race and dyslexia mixed
‘mate’
Informal register and language
Younger audience
More relatable for effect
‘rude boy’
Caribbean slang
Gangster
‘revenge’
Emotive language
Structurally we find this out first
‘high percentage of prison population are dyslexic and a high percentage of the architect population’
Balanced sentence
Dyslexia has two sides
‘stupid…stupid…stupid’
Repetition
‘Do I need an operation?’
Lack of understanding
Never educated or explained about it
Question
C onfused tone
‘I wrote more poetry, novels for teenagers…’
Listing
Shows normal despite dyslexia
‘I have to draw something to let me know what the word is to come back to it later’
Shows techniques for dealing with dyslexia
Shows it’s not a problem or bad thing
