General English Trivia
What is this?
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"
Alliteration
BONUS POINTS: technique verb?
What does it mean to annotate something?
What does PETAL stand for?
Point
Evidence
Technique
Analyse
Link
What poem is this quote from?
"I was born with a map of Australia on my face"
BONUS POINTS: if you can name the author!
BONUS POINTS: Jackie Kay
What is this?
"The candle danced in the wind"
Personification
BONUS POINTS: technique verb?
Why do we annotate in English?
So we can find the best techniques and examples and use them to write a great paragraph!
How many sentences should each part of a PETAL paragraph be?
1 sentence each - except for analysis which should be 3+ sentences!
What poem is this quote from?
"I'm not a cool kid, brand wearer, secret sharer"
BONUS POINTS: if you can name the author!
What I Am/What I'm Not
BONUS POINTS: Meredith Costain
Novels, poems, films, posters, podcasts, songs, etc.
What is this?
"I have a mountain of homework to do this weekend!"
Hyperbole
BONUS POINTS: technique verb?
What would you annotate for this line:
"The sun was high in the sky, stretching its arms through all the corners of the island and surrounding sea."
Personification: "stretching its arms" to depict the sun and the space it fills in the sky
What type of writing is a PETAL paragraph in English?
Analytical (to analyse something)
What poem is this quote from?
"Let them be as flowers"
BONUS POINTS: if you can name the author!
BONUS POINTS: Julio Noboa Polanco
What do we call the person who made a text?
Also: poet, writer, author
What is this?
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
Juxtaposition (contrast accepted)
BONUS POINTS: technique verb?
In Term 1, you read a poem called "Russian Doll". What is the technique used in the title of this poem?
Symbolism: the doll is the way in which she imagines her true self.
What type of table do we complete BEFORE writing a PETAL paragraph... and why?
What poem is this quote from?
"I could never smile or frown or weep"
BONUS POINTS: if you can name the author!
My Face is a Map
BONUS POINTS: Jackie Kay
Helps you to use English effectively in your personal, social, and learning contexts - we learn to communicate and understand
What is this?
"We have to save the poor, innocent, defenceless animals!"
Accumulation/Emotive Language
BONUS POINTS: technique verb?
What are the 4 steps to annotating?
1. Read the text more than once
2. Identify new vocabulary and define
3. Highlight/underline important words/phrases
4. Label important words or phrases with technique and meaning
What does "analyse" mean?
To look at cause and effect - choices that the composer made, and why they made them!
What poem is this quote from?
"And this country, our country that we're on here, It gets really lonely for that language too"
BONUS POINTS: if you can name the author!
Bigger than School Stuff
BONUS POINTS: Declan Furber Gillick