Young and Dyslexic Flashcards
Revise quotes
‘Don’t look back and feel anrgy’
Literacy illusions to the play don’t look back in anger, literacy alliteration to LP heart is novel the go between ‘the past is a different country they do things differently there’ metaphor of how things have changed in education for dyslexic today
‘ No humanity, no compassion, no understanding’
tricolon: emphasises the negative experience of school with repetition of no teachers lack of understanding of what it’s like for dyslexics
‘ Local Savages’
Noun, racist term stereotypes uncivilised uneducated interrogative sentences shows She doesn’t like being challenged
‘ A high Percentage of the prison Population are dyslexic and a high percentage of the architect population’
Contrasting parallel clauses, dyslexia does not need to define your life, you have the choice to take a positive path architect or negative path prisoner met for finding your path in life despite dyslexia
‘ Telling us the Nazis weren’t that bad’
Phrase shoots reader with its radical bigotry and ignorance in someone who is supposed to be an educator and shows sympathy of reader stays with the writer even though the writer has stolen the teachers car
Para 13
Humorous to thinks dyslexia is an illness. He is proactive and learning to read and write as a young adult. He wants to become a writer. He is motivated.
‘ Opportunities open for me’
Verb choice he season takes opportunities when others may miss or not notice them he makes his own success. He has self-esteem.
‘ Squiggle’
Noun enables nondyslexic readers to understand what words look like if you’re dyslexic, we can infer his dyslexia is quite bad as words looks like squiggles
We are the architects
Shifting pronouns from you to an inclusive pronouns like we and ask shows dyslexic that they are not alone there are many like them it’s reassuring
