AS+3.3+Unfamiliar+Written+Texts+Resources

===**Here you will find essential resources to help you prepare for the Close Reading standard, //'Respond critically to significant aspects of unfamiliar written texts through close reading, supported by evidence'.//**=== = HOT TIP for Mrs Reynolds' 13EN!!! = = This material will also help you identify the language features that characterise Markus Zusak's writing style in //The Book Thief//. See which website below this table covers that curiously relevant device he uses so much, s y n a e s t h e s i a, (adjective - synaesthetic!): 'The last time I saw her was red .' (From the prologue to //The Book Thief,// 'The Flag', page 22) Of course, Zusak also uses an unusual narrative and literary device by personifying his narrator, Death. So there you have it - close reading skills and knowledge of literary terms help you nail the techniques used by writers to engage and sustain our attention. Now, what was his purpose....??? Think! =


 * Language Features from the 2013 A.S.3.3 Sample Examination Paper **

//The beloved Black Bach that I look after – and it is most likely to take that crib first, because it is southernmost on the beach – well so be it.// Note: The __parenthesis__ creates a conversational tone, which is also __reflective__ but forward looking. Gives the sense that she’s the expert. ||
 * Language features that may be referred to at any level include: ||
 * * Contrasts: || //Blank stare// / //bright smile// demonstrating the __gently chiding tone__ towards those who think they know her ‘homeplace’. ||
 * * Minor sentences: || //Well not quite// develops a __conversational tone.__ ||
 * * Parenthesis: || //There are dozens of them (there used to be hundreds, but all of the accessible smaller ones have been souvenired), round and weird ...//
 * * Long vowel sounds: || **//Round//** //and weird and **looming –**// nostalgic tone, the perspective of a child comes through. ||
 * * Use of personal pronouns: || //As children **we** went ... none of **us** were ever game...**we** held grimly –// establishing a __nostalgic tone.__ ||
 * * Post modifiers: || //The mussels, those stubby fat blueback southern kutae –// nostalgic or positive tone. ||
 * * Triad/Triple construction: || //Things change: things erode: things go// establishes the appreciation of time moving on, __resigned yet optimistic__ if linked to the last line and the penultimate line where the writer tells us she received //“strength and energy and love form it”// ||
 * * Consonance: || //Rocks...Tikoraki...kaik...cracked.// ||
 * * Direct speech: || //‘Shoulda put concrete on them years ago...” ­–// amused. ||
 * * Metaphors: || //The ‘dance of change’; ‘the standing place of my heart’ –// nostalgic but also appreciative and forward looking. ||
 * * Use of Māori language: || //kutae/turangawaewae-ngakau/Moeraki –// awareness of her audience as most words have a context that non-Māori speakers can catch on to. ||
 * * Exclamatory quotations: || //‘O yes! That’s where the boulders are’ – mildly amused or chiding those who do not know her ‘homeplace’.// ||
 * * Scientific detail: || //Septarian concretion, yellow calcite crystals, –// tone of the expert, authoritative. ||

//__m__iners’ cottages pale as __m__ushrooms in the __m__ist –// soft sound linking ideas together suggesting loneliness, nostalgia for old times. //__f__antastical and __f__loating –// unsettling/ghostly/haunting. //__p__layground of a __p__rimary school –// nostalgic. || //a seesaw...like scales that tilt towards injustice –// lonely/resigned/wistful. //its streetlights like a gorse bloom’s yellow carnival –// nostalgic/positive. || //Lost in the enchantment of an ancient entertainment ­–­// ghostly/unsettling/nostalgic/appreciative. //Coal black waters voyaging this corridor of stars// //­–// ghostly/unsettling/nostalgic/appreciative. //Dad with his pockets full of fancy –// nostalgic/wistful/positive. //the town’s wake of champagne corks and ribbons –// nostalgic/appreciative/wistful/positive. //waiting ... as Huntly floats downstream// – ghostly/unsettling/nostalgic. || Managing your own learning is the best way to gain and retain understanding of the many literary and poetic terms you will need to know this year. Below, you will find some useful websites to help you build your knowledge bank: Literary and Poetic Terms Glossary websites:
 * Language features that may be referred to at any level include: ||
 * * Compounding: || //‘wraith-like’ –// the sense of the physical environment being ghostly and haunting. ||
 * * Alliteration: || //‘taste on my tongue’; ‘dust and diesel’ –// harshness suggesting loneliness/ghostliness.
 * * Sibilance (or alliteration): || //__Scales__ that tilt to__wards__ i__njustice__/////fanta__sti__cal/////__S__ome __s__urreal craft now ca__st__ adrift// – linking of the sibilant sounds provides an unsettling mood. ||
 * * Listing: || //a war memorial hall with a padlocked front door/the sour taste on my tongue of a dust and diesel railway station/miners’ cottages pale as mushrooms in the mist/a seesaw in the playground of a primary school.// ||
 * * Simile: || //miners’ cottages pale as mushrooms in the mist –// ghostly/unsettling/nostalgic.
 * * Metaphor: || //the topsy-turvy of its history down a surface cross threaded and riddled with mysteries –­// ghostly/unsettling/nostalgic.
 * * Run-on question: || //Do I merely chance to catch...Mum laughing as he murmurs something? –// nostalgic/ghostly/unsettling/positive. ||
 * * Pre-modification: || //A wraith-like old wooden two-storey hotel –// unsettling build up of images. ||
 * * Appeal to the senses: || //The sour taste on my tongue of a dust and diesel railway station –// nostalgic /unsettling. ||
 * * Allusion to Shakespeare: || //a midsummer night’s dream –// nostalgic, ghostly, unsettling, positive. ||
 * * Internal ‘Just keep internal rhyme and ignore feminine rhyme’ || //Enchantment/////ancient/////entertainment –// linking the idea of nostalgia/loneliness/sentimentality. ||

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