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English PT3 Chapter 4 Literature Component
Elements of the Poem

Structure, Style and Language Setting
• Five stanzas and rhyme scheme ‘a, b, a, b’ • Place – home
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• Style – simple and direct • Time – afternoon
• Language – easy to understand

Point of view Themes
• First person point of view • Changes in a person’s behaviour
• Awareness and understanding of
changes in another person
• Encouraging sincerity and truthfulness
Moral Values in young people
• It is good to be aware of changes in • Doing something to get attention
our surroundings and circumstances.
• Young people may need support
and encouragement to understand Tone and Mood
sincerity. • Tone – loving and inquiring
• Be alert to changes either in • Mood – humorous yet serious
character or habits of young
people.

Literary devices
• Symbol – ‘face is clean’ symbolises innocence
• Imagery – ‘no shrieking childish treble’
• Alliteration – ‘clothes without a crease’
• Hyperbole – ‘Now were you struck by lightning’
Chapter 4 • Metaphor – ‘you’re some stranger – Can this be REALLY you?’
• Rhetoric question – ‘Will wonders never cease?’
• Simile – ‘today you are a lamb’ referring to the child’s behaviour

Practices

Practice 1 Fill in the blanks with appropriate words or expressions from the
poem.

The persona meets her son at the front of the house after he comes home from school.
She is surprised by his greeting her with a 1. and a promise
to help her with 2. . She observes he looks different – his face

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