‘We are running a system that works for the yobs, we want a system that works for decent people.’ Exaggeration is the language technique here because it says that all youth are yobs when there are some decent people.
‘Families on the Tranmere and Rock Ferry Boundary have flooded the authorities with complaints about gangs terrorising their streets.’ In this quotation there are two noticeable language techniques that are against youth. The first technique is exaggeration which appeared in the last quote. Where it says ‘Rock Ferry Boundary have flooded the authorities’. There is not only one, but two language techniques in this short phrase. There is both exaggeration and a metaphore here. The metaphor is where it says that people flooded authorities with complaints about the youth. It is a metaphor because complaints cannot actually flood anything. The word flood has connotations to everything happening all at once.
March 18, 2015 at 9:54 am
Hello Joseph,
You have shown that you can identify metaphors and that you are now beginning to explain the effects of these techniques. This is much more like it.
Targets:
There was a clear focus on the board – how has the writer used language to show teenagers? Re-read your work and then add change your work to meet the needs of this title.
Develop your understanding of the term hyperbole.
March 19, 2015 at 1:34 pm
Hi Joseph
I agree with Mr North- Can you explain what your quote shows or suggests about teenagers?