Young and dyslexic

Question 1

What device is ‘the past is a different type of country’

Answer 1

A literary allusion to LP Hartley’s novel the go-between a metaphor of how things have changed in education for dyslexics

Question 2

What device is ‘no compassion, no understanding, no humanity’

Answer 2

Tricolon repetition of no teaches lack of understanding in schools regarding dyslexia

Question 3

What device is ‘we’ repeated

Answer 3

Repetition of inclusive pronoun invites readers to relate to his struggles

Question 4

What could you infer from ‘it’s all right we can’t all be intelligent, but you’ll end up being a sports person so why don’t you go outside and play some football’

Answer 4

It has a patronising tone and the teacher has a racist stereotype because he is black he should be athletic and the stereotype that dyslexics can’t be intelligent

Question 5

What device is ‘thrown out’

Answer 5

Verb phrase. Connotations that he was thrown out like rubbish

Question 6

What device is ‘poetry’, ‘novels’, ‘plays’, ‘books’ and ‘recorded music’

Answer 6

Listing to show achievements are not limited by dyslexia

Question 7

What does the noun ‘squiggle’ do

Answer 7

Helps non dyslexic to understand what it would look like yo dyslexic