Language Features Young and Dyslexic? You've Got It Going On' by Benjamin Zephaniah
Language Features Young and Dyslexic? You've Got It Going On' by Benjamin Zephaniah
Language Features Young and Dyslexic? You've Got It Going On' by Benjamin Zephaniah
4. Aggressive insults reinforcing the view that the system didnt support
Zephaniah
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9-23 5. Anecdote to reveal how ignorant teachers were
6. The use of contrast between himself and the teachers
11. The use of contrast between two different parts of society who have a
high percentage of being dyslexic to increase our understanding of its
scale
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12. Use of the direct pronoun to engage the reader in his individual situation
36-41
13. A list to remind us that he has overcome all stereotypes
14. Use of the modal verb to emphasise what society assumes his route in
life will be
15. Repetition and rhythm akin to dub poetry to show his thinking about the
Lines different life choices made by prisoners
42-47
16. Simple declarative sentence to show inner self conviction
17. Use of a colloquial expression to show how popular his poems were
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48-54 18. Use of humour to reveal his naivety about his situation
19. Words to do with the world of academia to show how far his life has
changed
Lines 20. Use of temporal markers to indicate that his struggle still goes on
55-69 21. Pairs of phrases/clauses to show us how he has learnt to deal with his
daily reading/writing challenges
Writing task
How does the writer use language and structure to convey his views about young
dyslexics?
4. the teachers retort stupid boy / how dare you challenge me?/stereotyping
him as preferring sport
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5. the local savages
9-23
6. I was just being creative she called me stupid or I would say and that
would get me into trouble
7. hard
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8. I could read very basically or as long as you could read how much the
24-27
banknote was worth
26. so
27. : you may have a genius on your hands
28. you have to think of a way to
Lines 29. creativity muscle
79-88 30. us dyslexic people
31. weve got it going on
32. we are the architects we are the designers
33. bloody non-dyslexics who do they think they are?