Seagull

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Seagull

• S2 Poetry
• Analysis (section 1)?

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Todays starter

• Take a highlighter and highlight all the we s
  in the poem
• Change colour and highlight all of the violent
  words
• Change colour again(!) and highlight all the full
  stops.
• Change colour again(!!) and highlight all the
  alliteration.
• Looking quite colourful now isnt it?

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Understanding

• Well come back to what weve highlighted
  shortly.
• Now take a new heading in your jotter Seagull
  summary
• Lines 1-9 describe ________________.
• Lines 10-13 describe ______________.
• Lines 14-20 describe _____________.

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Lines 1-9 analysis

• So, you know what these lines are about, now to
  analyse how the way theyre written helps add to
  the meaning.
• Can you spot three different techniques the
  writer uses in lines 1-9?

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metaphor
Bold statement

• We are the dawn marauders.
• We prey on pizza. We kill kebabs.
• We mug thrushes for bread crusts
• with a snap of our big bent beaks.
• We drum the worms from the ground
• with the stamp of our wide webbed feet.

short sentences
alliteration
repetition
metaphor
assonance
alliteration
onomatopoeia
Aggressive/ noisy verbs
alliteration
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Sights and sounds

• Sights through imagery.
• pictures created in your head similes,
  metaphors and personification
• A.K.A. figures of speech (a way of something, not
  literally true)?

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Poetry glossary

• Imagery/ figures of speech collective term for
  techniques that create pictures in your head
  similes, metaphor and personification
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

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Sights analysis

• dawn marauders

marauders
seagulls
Violent take what they want
greedy
sea
aggressive
violent
greedy
seabirds
Pirates - sea
Literal - real
Image - imaginary
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Sights analysis

• We mug thrushes

seagulls
muggers
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Sights - analysis

• We prey on pizza. We kill kebabs.
• What makes these descriptions of the seagulls
  eating food interesting? Explain as fully as you
  can.

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Sounds poetry glossary

• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Onomatopoeia
• Repetition
• Look at the letters used in the alliteration in
  lines 1-4. They make harsh sounds.
• What effect do you think the harsh alliteration
  is meant to create? What sound do you think it is
  supposed to mimic?

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Sounds - analysis

• Assonance look at the u u u what effect
  do you think the writer is aiming for?
• What do the onomatopoeic words have in common?
• Last but not least, We is repeated (well look
  at another reason for this later) why do you
  think this sound is repeated?