Language Analysis: Ten Minutes' musing by Alice Dunbar Nelson

English

The Short Story

In Ten Minutes' Musing by Alice Dunbar Nelson, which words could be used to describe the mob of boys?

Which subject terminology might you use when analysing this quotation: "Nearly every boy in the school was in that seething, swarming mass,"

A polysyndetic list uses a comma after every term in the list.

A polysyndetic list uses a conjunction (and, or) after every term in the list.

Select the correct definition of a polysyndetic list.

Which subject terminology might you use when analysing this quotation: “It was a mob that screamed and howled, and kicked, and yelled, and shouted, and perspired, and squirmed…”

True or false? Some boys are standing on the sides, screaming and laughing.

True or false? They boys seem out of control but purposeful.

True or false? The boys are calm and skilful with the ball

the effect of techniques such as simile and metaphor.

the words and phrases the writer is using.

When you analyse structure you should explore...

Is this statement true or false?  "When you look at the structure of a text you just need to summarise what happens."

True or false: The story is narrated by the principal.

True or false: The narrator describes the boys playing football.

True or false: The writer uses a first-person narrator.

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