Themes
What is a theme?
A theme is the central idea or underlying meaning in a piece of literary work.
What is personification?
When a non-human thing is given human like traits or characteristics.
Who wrote "A Stone's Throw"?
Elma Mitchell
The theme that refers to choice to lose something and the results of poor behaviour is.
Sacrifice and the Cost of Violence
What literary device is the title "A Stone's Throw"?
Pun
Where are the poets from?
Jamaica and the UK?
How was Judgement and Hypocrisy presented differently in the poems.
In "A Stone's Throw", The men judged the woman for her sin while committing sin themselves. Whereas in "The Woman Speaks to the Man Who has Employed Her Son", the mother judges herself and the employer pretends to be a father figure while secretly having wicked intentions.
What is irony in a piece of literature?
Do you think men, women or a man and a woman wrote the poems?
Two women wrote the poems.
Name the three themes mentioned in the presentation.
Judgement and Hypocrisy
Power and Powerlessness
What is an allusion?
An allusion is a literary device that is a reference to another literary piece.
Your interpretation.
What is another theme that was present in both poems?
Free Answer!
Name a Biblical Allusion in both poems.
She is prepared, she is done. Absalom. - "The Woman Speaks to the Man Who has Employed Her Son"
The entire poem alludes to John 8:1-11. - "A Stone's Throw"
Do you believe the reason CSEC chose these poems is to highlight the truth of Jamaican society?
Your interpretation