Unseen fiction 3/06/21

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Goals today: 3rd June 

You will check your vocabulary homework 

You will use semantic field and understanding of other techniques to complete the analysis text 5 

You will use narrative voice and unusual narrative technique to analyse text 6 

Homework for 7th June

Complete assignments for unit

9a, 9b & 9c

Put your answers in class notebook =>AWL Academic language acquisition 

Literature circles League table 

Never Let me Go: x 2 

The Catcher in the Rye: x 2 

Do Androids Dream ...: x 2 

Turtles all the Way Down x 2 

Anna: x 3

The Big Sleep: x 1 

The Reluctant Fundamentalist: x 1 

Before 3rd June - 3rd meeting 

Before 10th June- 4th meeting

Optional final meeting before 17th June 

17th June Literature circles analysis test 

Portfolio assignments 

Text 1 - 4 completed for today (3/06/21) 

Text 5 completed for 7th June 

Text 6 completed for 14th June. 

Portfolios close on midnight on 14th June

Unseen fiction 

Focus on the section from "I will go ... of the room." 

1. In this section, Doyle uses a semantic field of violence. Write down five examples.

2. How does Doyle present Roylott as a violent and unpleasant man in this extract? Support your ideas with quotations and terminology, including word class. You may want to use your answer to question 1 to help you. 

Suggested ideas 

• seized

• bent

• snarled

• hurling

• strode.

verbs and gerunds that show aggressive and intimidating actions.

 • the semantic field of violence

• his direct threats to Holmes (‘See that you keep yourself out of my grip’)

• the verb ‘snarled’, which dehumanises the character, with connotations of a dangerous animal.

Focus on the last section from "'He seems a ... in this matter." 

1. Structurally, it is interesting that Doyle only reveals Holmes’ physical strength once he has had Roylott leave the room. What effect does this have?

Suggested ideas 

The revelation of Holmes' physical strength only after Roylott has left means that Roylott is unaware that Holmes is physically as strong as he is. The resulting effect is that the reader becomes aware of this discrepancy in Roylott's understanding and the expectation is that  Roylott will underestimate Homes  later in the text and be overpowered. The author uses foreshadowing to give the reader a hint at a future outcome. 

Read extract number 6 

1. What is narrative voice? 

2. What are your expectations for a novel which is narrated by Death? Think about: 

- the content

- the narrative voice.

Read the opening lines: 

"First the colours.

Then the humans.

That’s usually how I see things.

Or at least, how I try."

3. What impression of the narrator is created in these opening lines? Use quotations to support your answer.

Suggested ideas 

1. The distinctive voice (diction, tone, style)  and point of view which the author creates for the narrator. 

2. You could  expect the novel to be supernatural, Gothic or ‘scary’. Maybe you thought that the  narrative voice would to be dark or sinister.

3. Consider the narrator’s appreciation of beauty, as suggested by the ‘colours’. The narrator’s fallibility (ability to fail)  suggested by ‘how I try’, which suggests that he often fails / is not as confident as might be assumed from the confident tone of the first two lines.

Read from "HERE IS A    " to "if not fair. 

1. In this section, the author creates a conversational tone, making it seem like the narrator is talking to the reader.

List two ways in which he does this. Support each one with a quotation.

2. What effect does this conversational tone have on the reader and their reaction to the narrator?

Read to "you gently away."

3. In the last part of this extract, the writer uses three simple sentences to describe the moment of death:

"Your soul will be in my arms. A colour will be perched on my shoulder. I will carry you gently away."

How do these simple sentences make dying sound? Explain your answer

Suggested ideas 

1. - first person narrative ('I')

- sentences which begin with 'and'  and use of humour ('And that's only the As')

- directly addressing the reader ('Please, trust me.')

2. The use of a conversational tone makes this unusual narrator more relatable. The reader is persuaded to agree and feel empathy with the narrator. 

3. They make death sound simple, easy and painless. This feeling is emphasised through the diction choice of  the word ‘gently’.

Complete this table. 

Connotations = diction/lexis word choice

Quotation	Technique	Effect
‘Where are my manners?’	Question	It suggests he is polite.
‘At some point in time, I will be standing over you, as genially as possible.’	Connotations of the word ‘genially’	It suggests that the narrator is pleasant, or at least wants to be pleasant (the addition of ‘as possible’ suggests he is not always able to be as genial as he would like).
‘I will carry you gently away.’	Connotations of the word ‘gently’.	the narrator sounds kind and caring

 "At that moment, you will be lying there (I rarely find people standing up). You will be caked in your own body. There might be a discovery; a scream will dribble down the air. The only sound I’ll hear after that will be my own breathing, and the sound of the smell, of my footsteps. The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?"

This is synaesthesia (look this term up) 

1. What effect do you think the use of synaesthesia has here? You might want to think about:

- the effect on the narrative

- the effect on our impressions of the narrator.

Suggested ideas 

1. The use of synaesthesia creates an unusual narrative perspective, which is appropriate given the unusual narrator. It also strengthens our understanding of the narrator as a sensitive character, who is highly aware of the things around him. Additionally, it suggests that our narrator has senses that are highly developed in an unusual way. 

Read from "Still, it’s possible " to " have beaten lungs."

I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling amongst the jigsaw puzzle of realisation, despair and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs.

1. What connotations does this verb have? How does it make the people sound?

1.

2. What effect does this metaphor have?

2.

3. What technique is used here? What effect does it have?

3.

Suggested ideas 

1.There are Connotations of something disintegrating or breaking. The use of this verb makes people sound as though their grief is destroying them.

2. This metaphor suggests that nothing makes sense any more. The grieving are struggling to put the pieces back together.

3. These metaphors reiterate the idea that bereavement has broken these people physically and emotionally. 

Portfolio exam type question

Homework for 

Answer question number 4 (in files) and place your answer in your class notebook. 

1. Answers in your tab with the title: Unseen fiction term 4 PORTFOLIO 

2. Give your answer the title: Text 5

3. Underline your 10 academic vocabulary words. (choices from the chapters so far).