Re-read the description of the lions. Explain how the writer has created effects by using this language.
‘And here were the lions now, fifteen feet away, so real, so feverishly and startlingly real that you could feel the prickling fur on your hand, and your mouth was stuffed with the dusty upholstery smell of their heated pelts, and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry, the yellows of lions and summer grass, and the sound of the matted lion lungs exhaling on the silent noontide, and the smell of meat from the panting, dripping mouths.’
'And here were the lions now, fifteen feet away, so real, so feverishly and startlingly real that you could feel the prickling fur on your hand, and your mouth was stuffed with the dusty upholstery smell of their heated pelts, and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry, the yellows of lions and summer grass, and the sound of the matted lion lungs exhaling on the silent noontide, and the smell of meat from the panting, dripping mouths. '
- The paragraph is one sentence… - Repetition of ‘and’… - Senses…
'And here were the lions now, fifteen feet away, so real, so feverishly and startlingly real that you could feel the prickling fur on your hand, and your mouth was stuffed with the dusty upholstery smell of their heated pelts, and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry, the yellows of lions and summer grass, and the sound of the matted lion lungs exhaling on the silent noontide, and the smell of meat from the panting, dripping mouths. '
- The paragraph is one sentence… - Repetition of ‘and’… - Senses… - Build up to final part of sentence… - Second person ‘you’…
1. ‘dripping mouths’…What effect does this language create? 2. Complete reading the story. 3. In groups, create a reading question for a different group to answer.
“Children nowadays are tyrants*. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.” ― Socrates
*a tyrant is someone who has absolute power