Birdsong structure and language

Who wrote the novel Birdsong?

• Wilfred Owen

• Sebastian Faulks

• Siegfried Sassoon

• Edward Thomas

What does the extract from the novel describe?

• A picnic

• An attack against the enemy side

• A gas attack

• A quiet time during the war

Who are Jack Firebrace and Arthur Shaw?

• They are comedians

• They are soldiers

• They are soldiers working as miners in no man's land.

• They are general commanding the attack

What does the word focus mean in terms of structure?

• What the writer concentrates on as the story or extract develops

• A group of people

• A game

• How a story or extract ends

Why are varied paragraphs important in making an extract or a story interesting?

• They can control how the pace, atmosphere and meaning of how the story works on us the reader

• They look nice

• You have to use them

• it would be boring if you didn't use paragraphs

What is a semantic field?

• A crop grown by the farmer

• A semantic field is a set of words related in meaning. For example words related to war in an extract

• A type of musical composition

• A piece of barren land

What does the word connotation mean?

• A type of dictation

• A way of fooling someone

• Connotation means the feelings which a word creates for a person in addition to its literal or simple surface meaning.

• A connotation is a type of plumbing

what does the word inference mean?

• An unfair decision

• A conference held inside somewhere

• A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning, or discovering about something. Often inference is not explicit it is implicit. You may have to “read between the lines”.

• A type of pear

what does the word evaluate mean?

• Make something valuable

• This means to judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of something:

• Add things up

• Lend money

What does the word imagery mean?

• Drawing pictures

• It is a type of jigsaw

• This mean using visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

• It is a type of sailing vessel