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| 🇬🇧 | 🇬🇧 |
| What is meant by word choice? | Words deliberately chosen by writer |
| What is meant my connotations? | The associations of a word Shades of meaning |
| What is meant by imagery? | Description by comparison Word pictures |
| What is meant by literal meaning? | Dictionary Definition |
| What is meant by metaphorical meaning? | Inferred/implied meaning imaginative comparison |
| What is meant by universal theme? | Theme we all relate to |
| Metaphor | Description of one thing by comparison with another |
| Childhood in originally | "i stared at the eyes of a blind toy, holding its paw" "big boys eating worms" |
| Obsession | Valentine mrs midas (?) |
| Journeys | Mrs tilscher originally |
| Stressful situations | War photographer mrs midas originally |
| Stressful situation in originally | "in a red room" "my brothers cried, one of them bawling" "i stared at the eyes of a blind toy, holding its paw" |
| Stressful situation in war photographer | "hands which did not tremble then though seem to now" "from aeroplane he stares impassively at where he earns a living" |
| Stressful situations in mrs midas | "it was then that i started to scream. he sank to his knees" "i made him sit on the other side of the room and keep his hands to himself" "separate beds" "i put a chair against my door, near petrified" |
| Childhood | Mrs tilscher originally |
| Childhood in mrs tilscher | "that for an hour, then a skittle of milk" "the laugh of a bell swung by a running child" "jumping and croaking away from the lunch crew" |
| Childhood in originally | "i stared at the eyes of a blind toy, holding its paw" "big boys eating worms" |
| Change | Mrs midas valentine originally war photographer twwms mrs tilscher |
| Change in mrs midas | "we were passionate then, in those halcyon days" "but now i feared his honeyed embrace" |
| Guilt (?) | Mrs midas war photographer |
| Damaged/toxic/negative relationships | Mrs midas valentine |
| Negative relationship is mrs midas | "i feared his honeyed embrace" "separate beds" "near petrified" |
| Positive / close relationship | Twwms mrs tilscher valentine |
| Love and hate | Mrs midas originally valentine |
| Growing up | Originally mrs tilscher twmms |
| Loss | Mrs midas orginally war photographer |
| Journeys | Mrs tilscher originally twmms |
| Isolation | Originally mrs midas war photographer |
| Obsession | Valentine mrs midas (?) twmms |
| Sense of belonging | Mrs tilscher orginally |
| Trauma/stress | War photographer mrs midas valentine |
| Safety and security | Mrs tilscher originally twmms |
| Identity/sense of self | Orignally mrs tilscher twmms |
| Adolesence/childhood | Mrs tilscher twmms |
| Memories | Twmms mrs tilscher mrs midas |
| Positives and negatives | Valentine |
| Contrast | ... |
| Paragraph 1 | Key Incident, introduce anti capital punishment views “Dog leapt round us, waging its whole body, wild with glee at finding so many human beings together” “Made a dash for the prisoner, and jumping up tried to lick his face” “Everyone stood aghast” |
| Paragraph 2 | Orwell’s Initial Reflection, sympathy “It is curious, but till that moment I had never realised what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man” “Bowels digesting food, skin renewing itself, nails growing, tissues forming” “Stood on the drop, when he was falling through the air with a tenth of a second to live” |
| Paragraph 3 | The execution and its aftermath “Retreated into a corner of the yard, where it stood among the weeds, looking timorously out at us” “He was dangling with his toes pointed straight downwards, very slowly revolving, as dead as stone” “An enormous relief has come upon us now” |
| Conclusion | Develop an understanding of anti capital punishment sentiments, sympathy, techniques used, readers are persuaded, all people should be treated equal |