Lockie Leonard
Essay
Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling
Language Features
100

What are the names of Lockie's siblings?

Phillip + Blob

100

What is the sentence in your intro that should address the question in one sentence?

Thesis statement

100

What is missing in this sentence?

Lockie Leonard is the protagonist

100
What is the difference between a similar and a metaphor.

Both compare directly. A simile uses the words 'like' or 'as' while metaphors are direct.


200

What time period/context was the novel set in? 

1990

200

What does the XA stand for in SEXAR and what do you need to do?

eXample and Analysis

Provide a quote and then explain the technique and analyse in relation to the question

200

Where does the possessive apostrophe belong?

Lockies sister is a baby and Phillip sometimes wets the bed.

Lockie's sister is a baby and Phillip sometimes wets the bed.

200

What is the effect of repetition?

Emphasis

300

Name two conflicts that Lockie faces in the story?

Eg. relationship, puberty, new school, bullying

300

What are the four parts of an introduction

1. Activate sentence

2. Text details

3. Summary

4. Thesis statement

300

What needs capital letters?

Proper nouns and starts of sentences.


300

What are the different types of imagery?

Sensory imagery (smell, touch, taste, hear, see)
400

What is Lockie's full name AND what is the name of the author.

Lachlan Robert Louis Stevenson Leonard

AND

Tim Winton

400

What do you think the essay question may have been if this is the essay's thesis statement?

Winton uses language features and narrative conventions to develop the ideas that love can be challenging, family is important and education can help one achieve dreams, to position the young audience to relate.

Discuss how the text uses language features and narrative conventions to develop ideas to position the young audience to relate.

400

What will need underlining in your essay?

Underline the novel title

Lockie Leonard: Human Torpedo

400

What are three examples of figurative language?

Simile

metaphor

personification

hyperbole

onomatopoeia

500

What is an idea that is in the novel?

The idea that... 

(no character names, no setting names, repeated throughout the story)

500

What comes before and after the X sentence?

Explain (explain the statement sentence or lead in to quote)

Analyse (identify, describe, analyse in relation to the question).

500

What four mistakes are in the following sentence:

lockie didnt want to go to a new school in angelus

Lockie didn't want to go to a new school in Angelus.

500

What are the three parts to analysis when analyse techniques in quotes?

Identify technique

Describe effect

Analyse in relation to the question

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