Favourite Poem

For Mother
You nursed me through
me milk teeth,
consoled me through
me spots
- I love you like
an auction, Mum.
Lots and lots and lots!

1. Introduction to Figurative Language

b) 1. I love you like an auction, Mum. The type of figurative language used is simile. The poet chose to use this figurative language as this simile expresses the poet's love for her mother.
b) 2. I like this poem as the poet loves her mother so much, and she even dedicated her time to come up with a poem to express her gratitude towards her mother. This poem reminds us to follow the poet and always be grateful to our mother for all she has done for us. This poem tells us to always remember to be grateful to our mothers and to appreciate them for what they have done, be it big or small. When we grow up, we have to repay our mothers with the same amount of love they treated us with.

2. Analyzing and composing own poem

c) Writing task(creative poem-individual effort)

School is stressful
School is fun
Its been like that
Since time begun

For what is life
Without some stress
Our brains would wither
We'd be a mess

Mental sums
The order of the day
The teacher said
To our dismay

Worked our brains
We sure did
Day in day out
With sure grit

But I love school
They say I'm mad
Get a life
You poor lad

To me
This is life
And it's really fun
Hey, it's been like that since time begun

Gulliver's Travels And Animal Farm Comparison

On reading Animal Farm and Gulliver's Travels, one cannot help but see the obvious similarities between the two. Both authors Swift and Orwell use satire to criticise and make fun of human behaviour. Swift takes a dig at the British government while Orwell criticises the communists of Russia. In Animal Farm, a group of animals from Manor Farm successfully take over the running of the farm after chasing Farmer Jones and his cronies away. The farm, run by the pigs, prospered and they managed to create their own ideal society. The animals soon realised that even the pigs could not abide by their own rules and things began to take a turn for the worse. It is obvious that the basis of Animal Farm's satirising is communism where by each animal depicts an individual person in the communist party. In Gulliver's Travels, the author, Jonathan Swift brings up many scenes to highlight the pride and folly of human beings. He uses many satires to compare the lives of strange creatures to the way mankind lives in our society today. For example, in the island of Lillliput, the people there distinguish their parties by the height of the heels on their shoes and how they crack their eggs. Gulliver's Travels also shows how human beings are so caught up in making their lives better and richer than what they have at present. The last place that Gulliver travels to is the land of the Yahoos and Houyhnyms. There, he satires humans are like animals. In both books, the authors have chosen to place animals in a higher hierarchy than human beings. Perhaps they are trying to say that animals are more civilised than humans.