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Hearing Colors, Seeing Sounds: Synesthesia
Hank explains the little we know about the perceptual condition known as synesthesia, where a person involuntary associates one sensation or experience with another sensation.
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Personification in Poetry
New ReviewThis video demonstrates identifying elements of personification in poems.
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Figurative Language
New ReviewThis video examines figurative language in poetry such as similes, methaphors, hyperboles, personification, and symbolism.
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Personification
New ReviewA video on how Personification helps create tone and mood in writing.
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Comparisons
New ReviewA video on how writers make comparisons using figurative language to make writing more interesting.
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Personification: The Power of Figurative Language | EasyTeaching
New ReviewPersonification is a figurative language device that is often used in creative writing. It gives human characteristics to things that are not human.In this lesson, we walk through what personification is, why it's used and we have a go...
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Improve Descriptive Writing with Figurative Devices | EasyTeaching
New ReviewFigurative language devices and other imagery techniques make writing more interesting.In this video, we explore six key figurative language devices—metaphors, similes, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, and onomatopoeia—and break...
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Is Witchcraft a Form of Satanism?
Howcast - Learn if witchcraft is a form of Satanism from Wiccan High Priestess Phyllis Curott in this Howcast video.
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Reading and responding to 'No. 115 Dreams' by Jackie Kay
Pupil outcome: I can give my personal response to the poem, including some evidence to justify my ideas. Key learning points: - ‘No. 115 Dreams’ is a free verse poem; it contains five verses and a repeated refrain. - ‘No. 115 Dreams’...
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Planning a setting description based on 'A Christmas Carol'
Pupil outcome: I can generate precise vocabulary to plan a narrative setting description. Key learning points: - ‘A Christmas Carol’ is set in Victorian London during the Christmas period. - The atmosphere is the tone or mood created in...
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Developing explanations in analytical writing about Akala's 'The Dark Lady'
Pupil outcome: I can develop my explanations in order to effectively put my ideas about Akala's 'The Dark Lady' across to the reader. Key learning points: - Good analytical paragraphs begin with a clear topic sentence, supported by a...
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Explaining how Burnett presents the garden setting in 'The Secret Garden'
Pupil outcome: I can explain how Burnett uses language devices such as personification and similes to present the garden setting in ‘The Secret Garden’. Key learning points: - Use the first read of an unseen extract to establish key...
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Emulating Murakami’s craft to write a descriptive opening
Pupil outcome: I can write an engaging descriptive opening paragraph using an omniscient perspective and extended metaphor. Key learning points: - Using an omniscient perspective allows the reader to be more immersed in a scene...
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Considering and using personification in persuasive letter writing
Pupil outcome: I can identify and analyse the use of personification in persuasive letter writing and emulate it in my own writing. Key learning points: - Personification can be effective in persuasive writing because it evokes an...
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Analysing how Brontë presents nature in 'Shall earth no more inspire thee'
Pupil outcome: I can explain how Brontë uses personification and a regular structure to present ideas about nature in 'Shall earth no more inspire thee'. Key learning points: - Arguably, Brontë personifies nature in order to encourage...
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Analysing mankind and nature in Wordsworth's 'Lines Written in Early Spring'
Pupil outcome: I can explain how Wordsworth uses language and structure to present the beauty of nature and the imperfection of mankind in 'Lines Written in Early Spring'. Key learning points: - Wordsworth presents nature as beautiful...
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Writing a setting description based on 'A Christmas Carol'
Pupil outcome: I can write a narrative setting description based on 'A Christmas Carol'. Key learning points: - The purpose of a setting description is to provide rich detail that creates an atmosphere for the reader. - Precise...
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Generating vocabulary to describe a setting in 'The Viewer'
Pupil outcome: I can generate vocabulary to describe a setting in ‘The Viewer’. Key learning points: - A setting is where or when a story takes place. - Atmosphere involves how a writer constructs their writing to convey emotions and...
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Practising using figurative language
Pupil outcome: I can practise using figurative language in different sentence types. Key learning points: - A simile describes something by comparing it to something else to make the description more vivid. - Personification gives human...
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Analysing the concepts of strength and resistance in Dharker's 'A Century Later'
Pupil outcome: I can explain how Dharker uses natural imagery, personification, caesuras and enjambment to express the concepts of strength and resistance in ‘A Century Later’. Key learning points: - Dharker’s use of natural imagery may...
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Linguistic features of descriptive writing
Pupil outcome: I can identify and explain linguistic features of descriptive writing. Key learning points: - Descriptive writing uses figurative language to create vivid pictures in the reader's mind. - Descriptive writing appeals to the...
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Gaia: The Mother of Creation
Imagine being the mother to every single living thing. What would you do if one of your children threatened the safety of the others? Would you kill or imprison your progeny to save the world? Gaia would know. As Greek mythology’s...
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Oh, How My Tree Inspires Me
Mr. Griot reviews figurative language and writes an original poem. He uses the poem to identify examples of simile, metaphor, idioms, personification, and alliteration.