Belfast confetti

TASK: what do you associate confetti with?

Sunday bloody Sunday

• What feelings can you detect in the song?

What? When? Where? Why?

How?

Match the punctuation mark to its name and functionPunctuation mark! Name Function

: Asterisk Allows writer to ask something.

? Colon Ends a sentence or an idea.

! Full Stop Suggests someone is shouting or importance.

* Question Mark Creates a pause.

- Ellipses Stops the sentence – presents a result.

. Hyphen Adds more information.

... Exclamation Mark Creates a pause, used in a list.

, Comma Implies something is unfinished and will continue

Match the punctuation mark to its name and functionPunctuation mark! Name Function

: Asterisk Allows writer to ask something.

? Colon Ends a sentence or an idea.

! Full Stop Suggests someone is shouting or importance.

* Question Mark Creates a pause.

- Ellipses Stops the sentence – presents a result.

. Hyphen Adds more information.

... Exclamation Mark Creates a pause, used in a list.

, Comma Implies something is unfinished and will continue

Key words

Label your pictures with the following:Saracen – army police vanKremlin-2 Mesh – protective mesh used on tanks

for anti-rocket.Makrolon face-shields – riot shieldsWalkie Talkies – police communicationLabyrinth – mythological maze.Fusillade – simultaneous gunfire.

Belfast GeographyBalaklavaRaglanInkermanOdessa StreetCrime Street

These are all streets in the Falls Road area of Belfast – where Sinn Fein’s offices

are, lots of violence happened and a very poor.

Belfast Confetti

Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining exclamation marks,Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys. A fount of broken type. And the explosion.Itself – an asterisk on the map. This hyphenated line, a burst of rapid fire...I was trying to complete a sentence in my head but it kept stuttering,All the alleyways and side streets blocked with stops and colons.

I know this labyrinth so well – Balaclava, Raglan, Inkerman, Odessa Street – Why can’t I escape? Every move is punctuated. Crimea Street. Dead end again.A Saracen, Kremlin-2 mesh. Makrolon face-shields. Walkie- talkies. What isMy name? Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.

Belfast Confetti

Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining exclamation marks,Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys. A fount of broken type. And the explosion.Itself – an asterisk on the map. This hyphenated line, a burst of rapid fire...I was trying to complete a sentence in my head but it kept stuttering,All the alleyways and side streets blocked with stops and colons.

Belfast Confetti

I know this labyrinth so well – Balaclava, Raglan, Inkerman, Odessa Street – Why can’t I escape? Every move is punctuated. Crimea Street. Dead end again.A Saracen, Kremlin-2 mesh. Makrolon face-shields. Walkie- talkies. What isMy name? Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.

Language Devices• Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining

exclamation marks

• Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys. A fount of broken type. And the explosion.

• My name? Where am I coming from? Where am I going?

• This hyphenated line, a burst of rapid fire...

• Street. Dead end again.

Rhetorical questionMetaphor

Short sentenceList

Ellipsis

What is the effect of these poetic devices?The poet uses a metaphor when he says, “.....”.

The effect of this is ...../This suggests....