All Quotes Flashcards
(33 cards)
travel up the blue Nile
Metaphor- compares children’s journey growing up with adventure along the Nile. suggest the long journey kids go through their childhood.
chanted the scenery
Word choice- ‘chanted’ suggest she is singing as primary school teachers often use a sing-song voice
Tara. Ethiopia. Khartoum. Aswano
Minor sentences- suggest how the teacher was saying the words and waited for the students to repeat them. common in primary classrooms.
That for an hour
Word choice- informal tone, suggest how pupils day were arranged into ‘chunks’ of time
skittle of milk
Simile- compares the milk bottles to white bowling pins. bowling is a fun game that children enjoy. makes the classroom environment sound happy and fun.
the chalky pyramids rubbed into dust
Word choice- suggest magical, passing of time, something ending and being lost?
A window opened with a long pole
Word choice- suggest action from the poem from imaginary to reality.
The laugh of a bell swung by a running child
Personification- the sound of a bell is being compared to someone laughing. people laugh when they’re happy so this shows the children were all happy and getting along together and having a fun time together.
This was better than home
Sentence structure, word choice- suggests how much the pupils enjoyed being in Mrs tilchers class. They preferred to be at school more than they wanted to be home with their families. Also said there were things in the classroom that weren’t at home which made school more fun and better.
Enthralling books
Sentence structure, word choice- shows how interested/into the books they were and learning in the classroom. shows they loved to learn and they enjoyed being there
The classroom glowed like a sweetshop
Simile- suggest how children love being in sweet shops as it’s all the stuff they love and want (sweets) so to the classroom was very enjoyable for the kids to be in. It’s also saying how kids when they were in the class they never wanted to leave as they loved it that much
Sugar paper Coloured shapes
Short sentence- helps the readers to imagine the simple coloured shapes.
Faded like the faint uneasy smudge of a mistake.
juxtaposition, imagery- shows security and danger of the moors murders. simile- power of loving environment removes fear
Mrs Tilscher loved you
Word choice- shows that Mrs tilscher treated the children like her own and wouldn’t let anything happen to them.
good gold star
Word choice- a word only primary school teachers use, it’s like a sticker that teachers give you when you have done something right or good. also suggest positive atmosphere sense of magic
the scent of a pencil slowly, carefully, shaved
Sentence structure- the use of commas slow down the sentence which mirrors the slow sharpening of a pencil. This implies the pupil is young as they are having to concentrate on a very simple task.
A xylophone’s nonsense heard fom another form.
Personification, word choice- suggest a fun atmosphere, but also that the song is being played by a small child who cannot play very well. (sense of hearing)
over the easter term, the inky tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation marks.
Word choice- over the Easter term gives a setting and more detail about the time passing. ‘term’ fits with the school setting
Metaphor- the inky…. It shows and represents how the children getting bigger/growing older. Commas to exclamation marks Tells the reader about the size, but also shows how the classroom setting compliments it as it says(commas and exclamation marks)
Jumping and croaking away from the lunch queue.
Word choice- croaking suggest sound- echoes that the boys voice breaking/cracking
A rough boy
Word choice- tell us about the speaker (she is from a sheltered background)
told you how you were born
Word choice- evokes a certain stage of life- where you gain knowledge about the fact of life. he caused havoc. She is no longer in the protective classroom.
you kicked him
Sentence structure, word choice- shows her disbelief perhaps her fear of the unknown, she can’t deal with the emotions which she reacts to physically to this different information, showing emotion and immaturity. Also violence childish reaction can’t believe what you’re hearing. Doesn’t like what she’s hearing so reacted be to violence.
stared at your parents appalled when you got back home
Word choice- the use of ‘appalled’ parenthesis places the word in the middle of the line, adding emphasis to her horror as her familiar and safe world disintegrates in front of her eyes. It emphasises the strong feelings of disgust felt by the speaker at the realisation that his/her parents must have had sex.
That feverish July
Personification, word choice- July-time is passing again, July end of the school year. feverish has connotations of :sick, ill, hot, exciting
