Young And Dyslexic? You've Got It Going On Flashcards
What are the key points?
- overall from challenges to opportunities
- Pronoun ‘we’
- Triplets/power of three
- Metaphor
- Short sentences
- Anecdotes
- Aggressive language
- Chronological order
- Confidence - ‘I’ sentences
- Confidence - humour
- Academic words to show progress
- Encouraging tone
- Temporal marker ‘now’ - ongoing struggle
- Concluding techniques
The writer highlights the Challenges of being dyslexic and opportunities that it can create
“We are the architects,we are the designers”
This language of building skills shows what can be achieved despite the problems of being dyslexic.
the author uses repetition as well as the Pronoun ‘we’ to make experiences feel shared
“We are the architects, we are the designers” is repeated near the end of the text
This Technique makes the reader feel involved and empathetic with writer
the author uses the structure of lists and triplets. This is a common way of making an argument stronger.
“No compassion, no understanding and no humanity“ highlights the suffering of being dyslexic.
“Being kind and thoughtful and listening to problems” shows the good that can come from it.
Metaphor is another common linguistic technique.
“The past is a different kind of country”. The writer uses this structure to create a powerful image of overcoming the challenges of dyslexic.
Consecutive Short sentences are regularly used.
“Shut up stupid boy.”
“Bad people would do one-third more bad”
This structure generally increases speed, tension and drama and highlights how the system did not support the author’s needs.
Anecdotes are used as a way of supporting the author’s arguments.
The teacher talking about Africa and savages shows how badly ethnic minorities (and by extension people with different needs) were treated.
Aggressive language is used to highlight the battles the author faced in dealing with people who were unhelpful and unkind.
”Fighting Stab Revenge Rude Nazis Stole” This shares his anger with the reader
the text is mostly structured in Chronological order
This Shows and shares the difficulty of using language for a dyslexic person
So it is mostly Factual with no confusion
the writer highlights his increasing Confidence by using short sentences with the emphasis on ‘I’
”I go into prisons to talk to people”
“I just had self belief”
the Confidence of the writer is also shown by his use of humour.
“Bloody non dyslexics who do they think they are”
“Do I need an operation?”
Being able to laugh at dyslexia shows the challenge has been overcome and mocks those who doubted him.
using specialist vocabulary like Academic words is a structure to show how the author has progressed.
Professor
University
Literary
these words show his increasing confidence despite his dyslexia
the writer often uses an Encouraging tone
this is designed to be hopeful and lifting. It is a Persuasive writing technique and makes the reader feel part of the writer’s journey in overcoming his challenges
the writer uses a Temporal marker ‘now’
“This highlight everything is not always easy even if it seems for the moment that the problems have been overcome
the author uses some Concluding techniques
“So” to round up his thoughts and a
Colon for emphasis on his point about finding a potential genius
He also uses Parallel sentences to show a closing sense of optimism
