Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. Rhetorical techniques are language tricks you can do to persuade audiences (persuasive techniques). ETHOS PATHOS and LOGOS These three techniques are called the Rhetorical Triangle. They are from Ancient Greece, where perusasion and argument was an artform. Basically, they are three ways to make a strong argument. Ethos: In…
Category: Textual Features
Characterisation
The way an author makes a character feel real is called characterisation. There are two types: DIRECTCharacterisation INDIRECTCharacterisation TELLS the character’s traits. SHOWS the character’s traits. Ms Roberts is a clumsy person. As Ms Roberts entered the room, she tripped on the mat and spilt her coffee everywhere! Two Types of Characterisation There are five…
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Picture Books
Structural Features of Picture Books Illustrations – Pictures are used to tell the story as well as the writing. The pictures should do at least half the work of telling the story.Illustrations should be eye catching and full of movement to carry the story. Predictable and Common Plots – Stories for children often follow common…
Visual Texts
How to analyse visual texts: https://astar.tv/how-to-analysing-visual-texts/ Picture books Read this list of features of picture books. Make a list of the features you used in your comic strip. Did you follow the same rules? Or did you do something different. Go to the page on Picture Books: https://msroberts.school.blog/2020/11/03/picture-books/ Comic Strips & Graphic Novels Read through…
Scarlet Letter and Easy A
The film Easy A is intertextually linked to classic short novel The Scarlet Letter. Scarlet Letter This is a famous short novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. It is about Puritans in early USA colonies who ostracise a women because she had an affair. It’s about morality and nosy neighbours and religiousness and it’s…
Flowers for Algernon vs. HOMЯ
For Intertextuality help click here. HOMЯ Season 12, Episode 9. The references we noticed in the episode: Other References and Trivia from this episode: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/HOM%D0%AF/References and https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/HOM%D0%AF/References and the most comprehensive list: http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/BABF22.txt The kissing at the beach scene From Here to Eternity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iTCDWQXYlY) is frequently referenced in movies and tv. There was a controversy…
Intertextuality
If you come across a really good resource, please let me know! MOST IMPORTANT LINKS: TV Tropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tropes Genius.com: best for looking up the intertextual references in music. https://genius.com/ What is Intertextuality? This Year 12 SACE teacher explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b9I3WoEHBo, as well as talking about Appropriation, Allusions and Parody. Types of Intertextuality There are two…
Poetry Writing (Middle School)
Want a challenge? Check out the page for Senior School students for more advanced poetry styles. RECOMMENDATION: Use Rhyme Desk as a space to write your poetry. It makes it easy to look up rhyming words and synonyms as you go. Easy / Quick Styles Diamante Diamante poems are about two opposing things, arranged in…
Objective and Subjective
BASICS Objective VocabularyThat is, those things that can be observed in the photo. Subjective VocabularyThat is, those things that we can infer or assume from the photo. young boyyoung girlhands in the airt-shirtdeskApple computer happywinnerjoysuccessschool settingprimary school Remember that Objectivity is about those things that can be observed; subjectivity is about those things which we…
Ms Roberts' Lesson Stuff 