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Text 1 The Butchers Shop
Starter Remind yourselves of these literary
terms SIMILE PERSONIFICATIONInterrogative
SentenceMETAPHOR Declarative Sentence

• Lesson Objective
• To show understanding of the poem and the
  attitudes it conveys

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NEW WORDS ALERT!!!

• INTERTEXTUALITY when a writer makes clear
  reference to a different, familiar text in their
  writing.
• JUXTAPOSITION different ideas placed together
  for effect

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What is the attitude of the poet towards the food
that she sees?
The pigs are strung in rows, open-mouthed,dignifi
ed in martyrs deaths. They hangstiff as Sunday
manners, their porky headsvoting Tory all their
lives, their blue rosettesdiscarded now. The
butcher smiles a meaty smile,white apron stained
with who knows what,fingers fat as sausages.
Smug, woolly cattleand snowy sheep prance on
tiles, grazingon eternity, cute illustrations in
a children's book.What does the sheep say
now?Its baas are silenced. There's sawdust
underfootand trays of meat with little plastic
hedges,playing farms. All the way homeyour cold
and soggy paper parcel bleeds.
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What is the attitude of the poet towards the food
that she sees?
The pigs are strung in rows, open-mouthed,dignifi
ed in martyrs deaths. They hangstiff as Sunday
manners, their porky headsvoting Tory all their
lives, their blue rosettesdiscarded now. The
butcher smiles a meaty smile,white apron stained
with who knows what,fingers fat as sausages.
Smug, woolly cattleand snowy sheep prance on
tiles, grazingon eternity, cute illustrations in
a children's book.What does the sheep say
now?Its baas are silenced. There's sawdust
underfootand trays of meat with little plastic
hedges,playing farms. All the way homeyour cold
and soggy paper parcel bleeds.
The effect of this simile is
This simile represents the idea that..
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What is the attitude of the poet towards the food
that she sees?
The pigs are strung in rows, open-mouthed,dignifi
ed in martyrs deaths. They hangstiff as Sunday
manners, their porky headsvoting Tory all their
lives, their blue rosettesdiscarded now. The
butcher smiles a meaty smile,white apron stained
with who knows what,fingers fat as sausages.
Smug, woolly cattleand snowy sheep prance on
tiles, grazingon eternity, cute illustrations in
a children's book.What does the sheep say
now?Its baas are silenced. There's sawdust
underfootand trays of meat with little plastic
hedges,playing farms. All the way homeyour cold
and soggy paper parcel bleeds.
This interrogative sentence suggests.
The effect of the verb silenced is
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Answers in full sentences please

1. On your poem identify all the VERBS and then
   answer the following question What does the
   writers choice of verbs tell the reader about
   her feelings and attitudes towards the meat?
2. The poem ends with the line All the way home/
   your cold and soggy paper parcel bleeds what
   is the effect of this final line?