Young and dyslexic, Benjamin Zephaniah

Question 1

Author

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Benajmin Zephaniah

Question 2

Genre

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Autobiography

Question 3

Audience

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Young and dyslexic people

Question 4

Structure

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Changes from anecdotes to talking about dyslexia to talking about when he was 21

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Subject

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Suffering of dyslexic people

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Purpose

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To reassure his readers that you can achieve success with dyslexia

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Perspective

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1st person present

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Thoughts and feelings of Zephaniah

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Frustated by the old education system
Dyslexia is not a measure of intelligence
Dyslexia is an advantage

Question 9

Frustated by the old education system

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Anecdotes (to make it sound realistic)
Dialogues (teacher insult)
Stereotyping (by statistics he should be in prison)

Question 10

Dyslexia is not a measure of intelligence

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simple sentence “I just had self-belief”, “I never thought I was stupid”
“Dyslexia is not a measure of intelligence: you may have a genius on your hands”

Question 11

Dyslexia is an advatage

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Repetition “we are the architects, we are the designers”
Advantage - “Having dyslexia can make you creative”
Defiant tone “If someone can’t understand dyslexi it’s their problem”.

Question 12

Overall tone

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informal tone “mate”.