Homework

 Unit 1.1

 Activity 6:

Question 1
- Example of context: “Kentish Town” {at a church, the first time Mary Shelley
and her husband met}
- Example of audience: “me” {the audience is Marry Shelley since the writing
was directed to her}
- Example of purpose: “there you are with me” {express the continuing
strength of her love to the deceased}
Question 2
- (a) the writer seems to express her pleasure of gaining the strength and
enjoyment she missed since the death of the deceased.
- (b) the author in the second paragraph seems to address the beauty of the
natural world.
Question 3
- Shelley links the natural world and the changing seasons to her mood and
work by making comparisons. For example, “the eclipse of winter is passing
from my mind”. She seems to gain her strength and joy from the natural
beauty of the winter.

 Activity 7:

- The context tends to express how much Mary Shelley’s late husband loved
her, evident in her saying, “love shone in your dear eyes”. While the audience
varies in the second paragraph from addressing her late husband to directly
addressing herself. The writer’s purpose in the beginning was solely on
expressing how much she loves her husband, “my loved Shelley”, but it tends
to change approaching the second paragraph to how the beauty of the
natural world influenced her inner feelings by contrasting it to city life.
  Unit 1.2

 Activity 2:

Feature of form (or its absence) Comment and example

Paragraphs The first paragraph is lengthier than the
second paragraph with longer sentences
compared to the second paragraph. The
first starts with “She had explored…”, while
the second begins “By twelve o’clock...”.
Direct speech Absent
Prose description of setting or action The setting of the text is in the woods,
“woods behind the house”, where the little
girl wanders to find flowers.
short simple sentence Absent
Longer, complex sentences Long complex sentences are used by the
author to add layers of descriptive language
and a range of adjectives, such as “velvety
ridges, sweet suds, blue flowers”, which
appeals to the five senses.

 Activity 4:

- In my point of view, the absence of direct speech in the extract creates a

claustrophobic effect as if the girl is trapped with no one to share her ideas.
This is because it leaves the reader in wonder of the little girl feelings while
being lost and lonely in an unknown place mile away from her home.

 Activity 5:

1. Examples of prepositions: behind, among, out, in, with, from.

2. Examples of time markers: today.
3. Examples of past perfect tense: she had explored the woods, she had often been as
far.