Note 5

1) Analyse the writers’ use of passive verb construction and repetition in the following examples (italics mine): (a)We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 77 The passive verb construction is within the words "are made". This form of the verb expresses an action that is carried out on the subject. Specifically to this phrase, the subject is "we" and the act of "kindness" is carried out on the subject. It also shows that the subject is trained to be kin...
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Sentence Structures

Grade 12 Experiences -> How do you feel about leaving next year? As the oldest child, working towards a final goal has not only been an ambitious task for me, but also my parents. Thinking about leaving next year arises mixed emotions that I'm too afraid to accept. I feel excited; I feel nervous; I feel exhausted; but most of all, I'm terrified. School has always been a walk in quicksand for me, as I struggled to keep my head up. Entering my final year, I was set on the path to my future; ...
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The God of Carnage

POINT 1 - Alcohol introduction Something that stuck out to me was the fury that emerged after the adults started drinking alcohol. QUOTE - add later This is interesting because after they consume alcohol, their 'true' natures that have already been exposed, start heating up and their arguments become more physical and aggressive. ...
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Paper 1 Practice - exercises

DICTION "Twenty bodies were thrown out of our wagon. Then the train resumed its journey, leaving behind it a few hundred naked dead, deprived of burial, in the deep snow of a field in Poland." Elie Wiesel, Night 1)- 2) DICTION "An aged man is but a paltry thing A tattered coat upon a stick...." W. B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium" Paltry - unimportant, insignificant Tattered - ragged, scruffy 1+2) The word tattered creates a very worn-out or ragged visualization. Its affect in this p...
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Summer Interest

Over the summer, my cousin had a traditional Indian baby shower. Overly dressing up, meeting aunts and uncles you'll never talk to again, and gorging on desserts before lunch. Not that I'm complaining. I look forward to these events. And after two years in exile, this was the highlight of my summer. Back to the shower, it was hectic. However, one conversation stuck with me longer than anything else. I asked my cousin whether she was expecting a girl or a boy. Without answering my question, she y...
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Note 1

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