Young and Dyslexic?

Question 1

‘As a child I suffered, but I learned to turn my dyslexia to my advantage’

Answer 1

• Anecdotal
• emotive language
• positive tone
• foreshadows a positive message

Question 2

‘We are the architects, we are the designers’

Answer 2

• unity
• collective pronouns
• parallel sentence structure

Question 3

negative triples

Answer 3

‘no compassion, no understanding and no humanity’
- repetition of no emphasises his emotions

Question 4

“shut up stupid boy.’

Answer 4

• short sentence
• negative contrast of education system
• dialogue insults

Question 5

juxtaposition

Answer 5

‘I didn’t stab anybody, but I did take revenge on a teacher once.’

Question 6

‘I stole his car and drove it into his front garden. I remember him telling us the Nazi’s weren’t bad.

Answer 6

• racism
• justifies his actions to make reader agree

Question 7

‘A high percentage of the prison population are dyslexic, and a high percentage of the architect population’

Answer 7

• extremes
• statistics

Question 8

‘I just had self-belief’

Answer 8

• short sentence
• confident
• accomplished a lot despite his background being unfortunate

Question 9

overwhelmed list

Answer 9

‘I wrote more poetry, novels for teenagers, plays, other books and recorded music’
- you can achieve things despite your disabilities

Question 10

Defiant tone

Answer 10

‘If someone can’t understand dyslexia it’s there problem’