This is an interactive, self-marking activity for engaging pupils with ten of the main** author techniques **in ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman.
Students are given a riddle and must match each definition to a choice of techniques in order to solve it. A word bank is provided on the activity. This activity will help to engage your students with the names, definitions and spellings of key subject terminology for GCSE English Literature.
Self-marking - if the student’s screen spells out the whole word, they’ve chosen all of the terms correctly! Great to use as a starter, plenary, revision or homework activity. Can be used at any point of teaching the novel, or at the pre-reading stage, as no characters or events from the novel are featured in this activity. I found that this activity took my Year 9s about 10 minutes to complete.
Please note: This is a Microsoft Excel activity. Students will need access to Excel to be able to use this.
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*Answer: LITERATURE
- protagonist 2. simile 3. exclamation 4. foreshadowing
- linear structure 6. dramatic irony 7. parallels 8. internal monologue
- stock phrases 10. dual narrative*
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