Literary Terms Alliteration assonance caesura enjambement bathos sibilance

Literary Terms: Alliteration, assonance, caesura, enjambement, bathos, sibilance, pathos, simile, metaphor, stanza, rhyme, rhythm, meter, personification, irony, satire, allegory Keywords: portrays, suggests, emphasises, represents, reflects, illustrates, highlights Extend your Thinking @ Bishop Justus 6 th Form Year 13: A 2 Level English Carol Ann Duffy Lesson Two The Cord DEEP THINKING: Are more children blissfully innocent today than in previous decades? Miss L. Hamilton society or nature? LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?

Literary Terms: Alliteration, assonance, caesura, enjambement, bathos, sibilance, pathos, simile, metaphor, stanza, rhyme, rhythm, meter, personification, irony, satire, allegory Keywords: portrays, suggests, emphasises, represents, reflects, illustrates, highlights Extend your Thinking @ Bishop Justus 6 th Form What do we know about Carol Ann Duffy? DEEP THINKING: Are more children blissfully innocent today than in previous decades? Miss L. Hamilton society or nature? LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?

Literary Terms: Alliteration, assonance, caesura, enjambement, bathos, sibilance, pathos, simile, metaphor, stanza, rhyme, rhythm, meter, personification, irony, satire, allegory Keywords: portrays, suggests, emphasises, represents, reflects, illustrates, highlights Extend your Thinking @ Bishop Justus 6 th Form Homework Due: Next week (week 3) Research in groups and prepare a presentation on one of the following: • Duffy • Feminism 1 st wave • Feminism 2 nd wave • Feminism 3 rd wave • Other critics. Video casts available here: http: //www. justuslearnin g. com/english/as-englishliterature-poetry-revision -carol-ann-duffy. html DEEP THINKING: Are more children blissfully innocent today than in previous decades? society or nature?

Literary Terms: Alliteration, assonance, caesura, enjambement, bathos, sibilance, pathos, simile, metaphor, stanza, rhyme, rhythm, meter, personification, irony, satire, allegory Keywords: portrays, suggests, emphasises, represents, reflects, illustrates, highlights Outstanding progress: Creative and unique ideas well analysed using impressive vocabulary and embedding second quotations to evidence understanding Excellent progress: Unique ideas well explored and communicated using terminology and extended vocabulary Good Progress: Interesting ideas clearly communicated in a structured analytical paragraph Extend your Thinking @ Bishop Justus 6 th Form How much progress will you make today? DEEP THINKING: Are more children blissfully innocent today than in previous decades? society or nature?

Literary Terms: Alliteration, assonance, caesura, enjambement, bathos, sibilance, pathos, simile, metaphor, stanza, rhyme, rhythm, meter, personification, irony, satire, allegory Keywords: portrays, suggests, emphasises, represents, reflects, illustrates, highlights Read “The Cord” What is the tone of the poem? Discuss in groups and be ready to feedback. EXT: What is the poem about? Extend your Thinking @ Bishop Justus 6 th Form Introduction: Group Reading and Collating Task DEEP THINKING: Are more children blissfully innocent today than in previous decades? society or nature?

Literary Terms: Alliteration, assonance, caesura, enjambement, bathos, sibilance, pathos, simile, metaphor, Literary Techniques: Alliteration, assonance, caesura, enjambement, hyperbole, sibilance, symbol, stanza, simile, rhythm, personification, irony, satire, allegory metaphor, stanza, rhyme, allusion, rhyme, meter, rhythm, meter, personification, irony, satire Keywords: Formula Words: portrays, suggests, emphasises, represents, reflects, illustrates, highlights ‘Motherhood gave her a sense of herself as an 'ex-child', allowing her to revisit the imaginative landscape of her own early years. 'I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine, ' she explains […]’ Extend your Thinking @ Bishop Justus 6 th Form Extract from an interview in The Guardian newspaper with Carol-Ann Duffy DEEP THINKING: Are more children blissfully innocent today than in previous decades? Miss L. Hamilton society or nature? LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?

Literary Terms: Alliteration, assonance, caesura, enjambement, bathos, sibilance, pathos, simile, metaphor, Literary Techniques: Alliteration, assonance, caesura, enjambement, hyperbole, sibilance, symbol, stanza, simile, rhythm, personification, irony, satire, allegory metaphor, stanza, rhyme, allusion, rhyme, meter, rhythm, meter, personification, irony, satire Keywords: Formula Words: portrays, suggests, emphasises, represents, reflects, illustrates, highlights EXT: can you connect to the context of Duffy or social influences? Extend your Thinking @ Bishop Justus 6 th Form Close analysis of poem: Each stanza to be deconstructed analysed by a group DEEP THINKING: Are more children blissfully innocent today than in previous decades? Miss L. Hamilton society or nature? LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?

Literary Terms: Alliteration, assonance, caesura, enjambement, bathos, sibilance, pathos, simile, metaphor, stanza, rhyme, rhythm, meter, personification, irony, satire, allegory Keywords: portrays, suggests, emphasises, represents, reflects, illustrates, highlights Task 2: Group Analysis Task How does Duffy present a child growing up in the cord? Write an analytical paragraph about the poem, addressing AO 1, AO 2 and AO 3 Outstanding Progress: Sophisticated, confident paragraph (embedding two quotations) explaining the effect of Duffy’s language/structural choices on the reader using terminology and addressing social context Excellent Progress: Clear, articulate (embedding two quotations) explaining the effect of Duffy’s language/structural choices on the reader using terminology and addressing social context DEEP THINKING: Are more children blissfully innocent today than in previous decades? Miss L. Hamilton society or nature?

Literary Terms: Alliteration, assonance, caesura, enjambement, bathos, sibilance, pathos, simile, metaphor, stanza, rhyme, rhythm, meter, personification, irony, satire, allegory Keywords: portrays, suggests, emphasises, represents, reflects, illustrates, highlights Modelled Example: Duffy presents the need for a child to understand their roots. She writes, “had a princess spun it from a golden spinning wheel”. The fairy-tale imagery highlights the childish innocence and imagination. The extended metaphor of a “cord” both suggests the biological bond between mother and child and a need to investigate her biological roots. Later Duffy writes “if the cord was made of rope”. The imagery used of “rope”, less value than the earlier “gold”, emphasises the growing maturity and realism of the child. As the poem is dedicated “for Ella”, and Ella is the name of Duffy’s child who born in a lesbian relationship. Therefore the poem could be understood to be about her child’s growing DEEP THINKING: need Are more children blissfully todaywas. than in previous decades? inquisitive to understand whoinnocent her father society or nature? Miss L. Hamilton

Literary Terms: Alliteration, assonance, caesura, enjambement, bathos, sibilance, pathos, simile, metaphor, stanza, rhyme, rhythm, meter, personification, irony, satire, allegory Keywords: portrays, suggests, emphasises, represents, reflects, illustrates, highlights Plenary: Group Task Share your paragraphs and peer assess using the criteria t can a h W Ext: from n r a you le eople’s p other rk? wo Outstanding Progress: Sophisticated, confident paragraph (embedding two quotations) explaining the effect of Duffy’s language/structural choices on the reader using terminology and addressing social context Excellent Progress: Clear, articulate (embedding two quotations) explaining the effect of Duffy’s language/structural choices on the reader using terminology and addressing social context DEEP THINKING: Are more children blissfully innocent today than in previous decades? Miss L. Hamilton society or nature? LQ: Can I analyse a poem effectively?

Literary Terms: Alliteration, assonance, caesura, enjambement, bathos, sibilance, pathos, simile, metaphor, stanza, rhyme, rhythm, meter, personification, irony, satire, allegory Keywords: portrays, suggests, emphasises, represents, reflects, illustrates, highlights Outstanding progress: Creative and unique ideas well analysed using impressive vocabulary and embedding second quotations to evidence understanding Excellent progress: Unique ideas well explored and communicated using terminology and extended vocabulary Good Progress: Interesting ideas clearly communicated in a structured analytical paragraph Extend your Thinking @ Bishop Justus 6 th Form How much progress will you make today? DEEP THINKING: Are more children blissfully innocent today than in previous decades? society or nature?