Exam+Revision

=Exam Revision=

Please use the //Discussion// tab on this page and create new posts about specific things you would like to go over in class. //*The discussion tab is the one with the two speech marks on it. Please use that to comment.//


 * [UPDATE] -** 12/03/12 - Just came across the following app on the Mac app store - Shakespeare in Bits: Romeo & Juliet. Is £10 to download to your Mac, but looks excellent. A great resource for revising! Just search the Mac App store for more info.

Poetic Techniques powerpoint:

This is also some useful phrases to use when commenting on techniques in your analysis:

=Mood and Tone Words= The following youtube videos should help you to come up with some tone and mood words. **Make a note of them and bring them to class.** You should also learn them - this will help for close reading //tone// questions and should also allow you to have some new vocabulary for your writing.

They are to give you some new words to describe the //tone// of writing. "Alas, it was hopeless" could be described as a sombre tone etc.

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=Literary Techniques= //Metaphor, hyperbole etc.//

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//Not exactly my choice of songs for examples, but it is probably easier to understand without having your eardrums blown to pieces!//

=Links=

@http://www.getrevising.co.uk/ - a good website to help you plan a revision timetable.

Personally I would like to learn quotes... I don't know if there is a way of doing this interactively or if it is just head in the book?? But just thought I should give a suggestion. Darren

Yeah Darren I think thats a good point...an interactive way would be better instead of just cramming them in our heads, pretty close to exams and i hardly have any quotes. Liam

Quite worried how difficult I found the Glasgow 5th March essay to do, it was hard not to repeat myself and I kept feeling like I ran out of things to say...did anyone else think this too? I think I struggled because a poem is relatively short compared to something like Romeo and Juliet. Liam // But there is so much within the poem to talk about, Liam. There are a lt of ideas contained within the lines and images you can discuss. You can talk about the structure of the poem at length the themes.... There is a lot. Look back over your notes for more ideas. //