English Year V, KAL

Tandem sheet on language features

Q2:
The American Dream
B
Task:
Together with a partner, practice language features by using the tandem sheet. Read the extracts of famous speeches
alternately to each other and name the used language feauture. Your partner has the solution and tells you if you’re right
or wrong. Please also mention in which category the feature belongs (rhetoric/choice o words/sentence structure/
imagery).

PARTNER B

1 USE OF PERSONAL PRONOUN

A (RHETORIC)

2 This is the price and promise of citizenship.

B
3 USE OF POSITIVELY/NEGATIVELY CONNOTED WORDS
(CHOICE OF WORDS)

4 We want our kids to grow up […]. We want our children to live in America […].
We want to pass on a country […].

5 METAPHOR
(IMAGERY)

6 And I´m so proud of you guys.

7 RHETORICAL QUESTION
(RHETORIC)

8 It´small, it´s big. It´s important.

9 PERSONIFICATION
(IMAGERY)

10 We believe in a generous America, in a compassionate America, in a tolerant

America […].

11 SIMILE
(IMAGERY)

12 That’s why we do this. That’s what politics can be. That’s why elections matter.

13 COMPARATIVES/SUPERLATIVES