Young and Dyslexic

Question 1

As a child i suffered

Answer 1

Anecdotal. emotive language

Question 2

But learned to turn dyslexia to my advantage

Answer 2

A positive tone, foreshadows positive defiant tone.

Question 3

No compassion, no understanding and no humanity

Answer 3

triplets, negative limited.

Question 4

The past is a different type of country

Answer 4

element of hope

Question 5

Then good people could do one third more good in the world

Answer 5

Anecdote, highlights creativity,argument.

Question 6

Shut up, stupid boy. Bad people would do one third more bad

Answer 6

Dialogue, insults, juxtaposition and contrast to earlier quotation.

Question 7

How dare you challenge me

Answer 7

Anecdote, example of limits of education system and racism, ‘local savages’

Question 8

Why don’t you go outside and play some football?

Answer 8

stereotypical, -the normal, different from a young age, creative.

Question 9

I remember him telling us the Nazis weren’t that bad

Answer 9

Anecdote, extremely racist

Question 10

And partly for being a rude boy

Answer 10

Example of ethos, increasing his credibility and making him more likeable.

Question 11

A high percentage of the prison population are dyslexic, and a high percentage of the architect population.

Answer 11

Statistics, contrast one another, suggest that there are only two pathways which is hyperbole.

Question 12

I should be in prison:

Answer 12

modal verb-should implies that everything was leading in that direction and due to his actions he reversed that. Showing the younger dyslexic population and black population that it is possible to reverse the outcome. Colon draws the attention to the next sentence

Question 13

A black man brought up on the wrong side of town whose family fell apart, in trouble with the police when i was a kid, unable to read and write, with no qualifications and, on top of that, dyslexic.

Answer 13

listing shows what he has had to overcome.

Question 14

But opportunities opened form me and they missed theirs, didn’t notice them or didn’t take them

Answer 14

‘theirs’- possessive pronoun suggests that these opportunities were there for them to take but didn’t. Emphasises ownership of the opportunities, implying that they must work for them, also showing an element of hope for people in the same situation.

Question 15

At the strat of the passage- ‘we are the architects, we are the designers’

Answer 15

collective pronouns emphasise team or family. parallel sentence structure. Creative skilled workers.

Question 16

Do I need an operation

Answer 16

Humour, light-hearted tone, no awareness- naivety.

Question 17

Still now, when im writing the word ‘knot’, i have to stop and think, ‘how do i write that/’ I have to draw something to let me knopw what the word is to come back to it later.

Answer 17

still now- temporal marker, still- adverb suggests ongoing problem, harsh reality.

Question 18

If someone cant understand dyslexia it’s their

problem.

Answer 18

defiant tone.

Question 19

In many ways being dyslexic is a natural way to be

Answer 19

li ks to ‘squiggle that represents a sound- language choice, squiggle-verb, shows childish mannor, people who can write are the different ones and unatural and people with dyslexia are the natural ones

Question 20

Bloody non-dyslexics… who do they think they are?

Answer 20

‘non-dyslexics’-implies different and un natural. ‘Who do they think they are’- negative connotations, reversing the question that may be used against dyslexics, taking ownership of the phrase takes the meaning out of it. ‘bloody’-language choice- adverb, humorous, light hearted.