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how this helped u to understand the writer’s attitude towards seafood?

simile: “recoil like dracula drenched in holy water”

Rhetorical question: “have you looked at an oyster?”

In this text the writer talks about their hatred for seafood as they state immediately at the beginning of the text ” I can’t stomach seafood”. They use different language effects to get there message across two of these are simile and rhetorical question.

The writer uses a simile to show the reader exactly how they feel about seafood. When the writer says “recoil like Dracula drenched in holy water” us as readers get a clear image of a vampire shrinking back and burning from holy water and this image reflects the writers feeling towards seafood as they shrink away in disgust at the mere thought of it

In the last paragraph of the text, the writer uses a rhetorical question and this creates a more personal view on the text. When they ask ” have you looked at an oyster?” we think about how we feel about seafood and this gives us a connection to the writer and we sympathise with them. By using this language feature they show how strongly they feel about this topic we hear they voice asking the question at it makes the whole text more intense.

In this text, the author talks about a museum exhibit. The exhibit features 26 teenage bedrooms and was created to “conserve the evolving museum of identity and experience that adolescents build around themselves”. The writer explains the exhibit to us and what they think the creator was trying to say with it. The author uses language feature and these help us understand the different ideas about teenage bedrooms.

One of these language features is contrast “unbrushed hair pulled imactuatly back into a scruffy bun” this use of word makes no sense how can something be immaculate yet scruffy and unbrushed it is a contrast between to polar opposites but it teaches us an immense amount about teenage bedrooms, and just teenages in general. This bun is has taken a long time to perfect, to get is looking like it took no time, like they woke up like this this put together but also causal and effortless. There is contrast all though the text “between adult and child” grown up but not old, “home comfort and independent rebel” cozy but cool and edgy

	Text 1 Gataca	Text 2 Macbeth	Text 3 Lorax	Text 4 Ozymandias
Ideas about Ambition	That if you have ambition you can achieve anything	That ambition can be dangerous to your mind without the balance of morality	That if your ambition goes against your common sense then you will end up regretting your decisions	That now matter how ambitious you are or how much you achieve you will die in the end anyway so…
Method	camera angles	pathetic fallacy		symbolism
Examples

Ambition is something we are all expected to have, in school, in sport and just in our everyday lives. It’s a good thing and it is something you are respected for if you have it, but like most things, it has its flaws. In the texts Gattaca, Macbeth, The Lorax and Ozymandias we are taught both its dangers and its values. Gattaca teaches us that no matter where you stand in society you can achieve your dreams when you have enough ambition, but Macbeth teaches us that without morality that same ambition can cause us severe harm. The Lorax shows us that, like Macbeth, if you go against your morals to reach your goal the consequences can be devastating and Ozymandias shows us that no matter how ambitious or how far you get in life, you are your gonna die in the end anyway so it doesn’t really matter.

Describe at least one important character in the written text. Explain how the character changes throughout the text.

In Williams Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, all the characters go through changes some good and some bad one of these characters is Lady Macbeth.

P1 ” unsex me here” “come to my woman’s breast and take my milk for gall” “stop up th access to remorse”

P2 ” had he not resembled my father as he slept i had done’t” “I hear the owl scream and the crickets cry” “a little water”

P3 “out damned spot out” who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him”

Explain, with reference to specific quotations and language effects, what Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” adds to our understanding of the nature of ambition.

In the Percy Shelley’s Sonnet Ozymandias past tense is used to show us the temporariness of ambitions rewards. In the end of the \first quatrain, while describing what is left of Ozymandias’s statue, Shelley says ” the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed” if we think of this as Ozymandias’s “the King of Kings” hand and heart, then the hand is mocking the gods and the heart that fed off his subjects until he achieved his goals. Obviously Ozymandias was a incredibly ambitions man, as you would have to be to become “King of Kings” but Shelley’s use of past tense in that last line shows us how Ozymandias was once so great but he is now just a broken statue. This Sonnet teachers us how ambition is temporary and will only last as long as a lifetime.

I hate tomatoes the way they taste

How they squelch between your teeth

I even hate when people make tomatoes into paste

I especially hate the ones that rot under and beneath

I hate anchovies the way they smell

How they wriggle on your tongue

I hate the idea of them not living in a shell

I hate the way they look at me like they have been stung

I don’t get how people think that yams are okay to eat

I hate the colour before and after they have had a cook

They remind me of little people with little hands and and little feet

sometimes they are so disgusting I can’t bring myself to look

But even though I hate these foods in every way

I love to eat them sometimes when I go away

How does Shakespeare’s understanding of the Sonnet help him get his message across in sonnet 130?

In this poem Shakespeare has used a sonnet form with a volta at the end to get his message across. Throughout the start of the sonnet shakespeare criticizes his mistress to the point where you doubt his love for her. But, he then uses his volta, the last two lines, to say “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.” this shows us that though she is not the most attractive he loves her despite her flaws making his love one of the truests kinds.

Ozymandias

1. Develop a response

It feels kind of lonely as though someone is alone in the dessert with lots of old statues

2. Check the meaning of the words you don’t understand

Visage – Face

3. Notice structure

iambic pentameter, pattern

4. Explore language effects

person, tense

How is ambition shown in this film?

In the Film Gattaca Andrew Niccol, the writer and director, shows the concept of ambition through camera shots and angles. Niccol uses low shots to show authority or power and birds eye views and high shots to show weakness. As our protagonist, Vincent, works toward his dream of going to space the camera shots change to show his position in this modern society. Throughout the film we have a particular shot that shows the sky or sometimes stars as Vincent looks up to see the rockets of gattaca being launched. At the start of this film this view is obviously seen from below and this shows how small and weak Vincent is and how hard it will be to reach his goal. However one of the very last shots we see is when Vincent is in the rocket and has finally achieved his goal we see his face and then the shot changes to a view of the stars, in this shot it is clear the it is not taken from below and that Vincent is now equal to the Stars and his dreams. Niccol has used these shots purposely to show Vincent’s ambition and hard it was to achieve his dreams but how his ambition eventerly payed of and he reached his goal.

Symmetrical shot of Irene, she is modernism.

Her top button is undone and this almost shows us that she is a bit flustered because the rest of her is so put together.

He is at the bottom of the staircase like victor is at the bottom of the genetic society.

Shots show vulnerability in geromes character. And how much he is struggling.

blood = symbolism = truth

How Anton easily climbs the stair after struggled so much show of much more superior Anton is in this society.

Her hair comes down bit and she looks messy for that first time in this scene where she finds out the truth of victor.