1. Date:
Title: Language and effect
To be able to identify techniques and comment on their effect.
Task A) Write these words in
your books, along with a
definition.
• Sludge
• Fatique
• Floundering
• Writhing
• Obscene
• Zest
Task B) For each word,
write a one sentence
connotation (what the
word makes you
imagine).
e.g.
Sludge = thick mud
A sense of struggle and
difficult movement.
2. To be able to identify techniques and comment on their effect.
What do you associate with these images?
Label each with words, phrases, descriptions.
EXT: Write a descriptive sentence that links all
four images. Key word: IMAGERY
Swap books.
In green pen, write
connotations
around their word,
phrase choices.
3. ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’
To be able to identify techniques and comment on their effect.
As we read, keep an eye out for:
• Rhyme scheme
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Repetition
It is sweet and right to die for your
country
5. Technique Example
1st person ‘I saw him drowning’
Rhyme/rhythm 1 and 3rd line =sacks/backs
1st person plural
(‘we’)
‘We turned our backs’
Alliteration ‘And watch the white eyes writhing in his face’
Repetition ‘Gas! Gas!’
Personification ‘Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines’
Simile ‘...like a man in fire or lime’.
Imagery ‘His hanging face’
Onomatopoeia Trudge, guttering, choking, drowning.
Past Tense ‘Men marched asleep’
Metaphor ‘Drunk with fatigue’
6. To be able to identify techniques and comment on their effect.
P: make a point that answers the question.
E: give some evidence (a quotation) to back up your point.
T: name the technique used by the writer in the quotation.
A: analyse the technique explaining the effect it has on the
reader.
L: link all your ideas back to the initial point you made.
Give one example of how Owen shows the
horrors of war in ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’
7. What do you associate with these images?
Label each with words, phrases, descriptions.
EXT: Write a descriptive sentence that links all four images. Key word:
IMAGERY
