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Tutorial Letter 203/0/2023
Applied English Literature Studies:
Foundation Phase First Additional
Language
ENG1516
Year Module
Department of English Studies
This is a feedback Tutorial Letter for Assignment
03.
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, Dear Student
FEEDBACK OF ENG1516 ASSIGNMENT 03
Thank you for completing your third assignment. This feedback tutorial letter
provides you with guidelines and examples of how you could have responded to
the questions set for the assignment. Please study it alongside the specific
feedback comments that you received from your marker. If you are unsure about
why you received your mark, please contact Mr Russell Goldman at:
Question 1.1
Identify three poetic techniques which serve to highlight the emotions experienced by
the children in a crowded taxi during the Covid pandemic.
This question requires you to name three poetic techniques used in the
poem to highlight the emotions experienced by the children and include
quotes from the poem to support the techniques you named. Some
examples of poetic techniques you could have identified are:
Onomatopoeia, to enhance feelings of excitement or fear:
- School starting now, we together bleat
- Small Sam sneezes over us, so we
screech Alliteration, to enhance feelings of
calm:
- Driver Lebo soothes us with sweets to eat
Internal rhyme, to enhance feelings of panic, concern, or fear:
- Don’t swipe; use this paper wipe; please don’t leak!
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Question 1.2
Examine the end-rhymes “bleat” and “screech”. What do these words denote about
the children’s attitudes within the context of the poem?
This is a relatively straight-forward question that you could have answered
in several ways, but ideally you should have identified that both words are
examples of onomatopoeia, are both sounds made by animals and, thus,
denote a sense of panic, fear, agitation or excitement in the children.
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