My stellar padlet by Jun Wei https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2016-08-22 03:27:58 UTC 2016-08-25 12:09:32 UTC hello@padlet.com Refer to the excerpt (Walking with Living Feet) MrTay https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119086788 1. Highlight as many interesting descriptions as possible
2. Explain how each description
- Appeals to the reader senses (Which sense and how?)
- What imagery does it portray?
- Any forms of comparison?
- Exaggeration?
]]> 2016-08-22 03:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119086788 Clara, Benicia, Aathe, Chien Yi, Priya (8) https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119090205 1)"many fingers trying to pull at my nerves and make my bones quiver."
2)"There are actually houses right next to the barbed wire, the fence with its thorns that stabbed my frightened eyes, enough to separate a universe. The people of that city would have had to be dead not to notice the death which struck daily, right behind their back yards, where I saw children playing. "
3)"see how their fingers had scraped off the white paint, trying to escape"
"ANALYSIS
1) This is interesting as the description is so vivid and so imaginable. It portrays the pain felt. Pulling against nerves are something must've been painful as nerves are very sensitive. It is not exaggerating as the pain must have been that painful.
2)The author is showing how the area of the camp were surrounded by sharp barbed wire keeping people from going into the camp where thousands were killed.  Also it shows that people were being killed right behind people's backs but they did not notice it. This imagery appeals to my sense of sight as I can imagine all the fences before my eyes and it churns out a fear of terror within
3)The author is trying to give us an imagery by saying that those who were held captive were actually trying to escape by any means. They were so helpless that they used their nails as a last resort to find a way out of the hell hole.




]]> 2016-08-22 04:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119090205 Hui En, Grace, Jia Lin, Sharanya, Norine https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119090299 1. "I saw the blue stains of Zyklon B streaking the ceilings and walls, the poison used to kill the people who were crushed into this tiny, gray cement room." It appeals to the reader's sense of sight as it shows how the jews were struggling not to swallow the poison and the conditions of the place where the jews were placed.

2.  "The cement floor that I sat on was cold and clammy; the air in the room seemed made of chills." This appeals to the readers sense of touch as he could feel the coldness of the air in the room, feel the icy cold ground that they were sitting on.

3. " those chilling waves were seeping into my skin, like so many fingers trying to pull at my nerves and make my bones quiver. " This appeals to the reader's sense of touch as the second part of the sentence, is describing the author's experience and feeling of how the "chilling waves were seeping into his skin", this means that  cold and stale atmosphere was blowing against his skin, making him shiver.

4. "houses right next to the barbed wire, the fence with its thorns that stabbed my frightened eyes, enough to separate a universe." This appeals to the reader's sense of sight as it shows the thorn-filled wired fence as if it is separating the author from life and death


]]> 2016-08-22 04:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119090299 Rachel Teo, Fayth, Natalie Yeo, Shreya, Shan Ting https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119090502 1." I saw the blue stains of Zyklon B streaking the ceilings and walls
2.cold and clammy
3.the air in the room seemed made of chills
4.those chilling waves were seeping into my skin, like so many fingers trying to pull at my nerves and make my bones quiver. 
5. yet the chills that rankled the air around me hadn’t reached my mind
6.All the other emotions around me showed the presence of human hearts
7.squirming skin could attest to my surroundings, and the crawling air
8.the fence with its thorns that stabbed my frightened eyes
9. barnlike barracks still extend forever, in endless rows
This phrase appeals to the reader's sense of sight. It shows that a large area was filled by these barracks and there was a large number of it, as if the rows of barracks could go one forever. This infers that there are a lot of soldiers housed there.

]]> 2016-08-22 04:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119090502 Joan, Abigail, Yu Xuan, Lisana, Sharon 1500663 https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119090595 1.The blue stains of Zyklon B streaking the ceilings and walls
Cold and clammy
made of chills
chilling waves were seeping into my skin
make my bones quiver
The chills that rankled the air around me
crawling air
thorns that stabbed my frightened eyes
long gray, barnlike barracks 
the sky a leaden weight
the colours that grace free life. 
murdered dreams]]> 2016-08-22 04:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119090595 Kezia,Michelle,Natalie K,Sasmithaa https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119090609 1)the blue stains of Zyklon B streaking the ceilings and walls
2)cement floor that I sat on was cold and clammy
3)The air in the room seemed made of chills]]> 2016-08-22 04:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119090609 Glenys, sarah, suwathi, tanya, natalie https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119090638 1) blue stains of Zyklon B streaking the ceilings and walls]]> 2016-08-22 04:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119090638 Glenys, sarah, suwathi, tanya, natalie https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119132318 1) Blue stains of Zyklon B streaking the ceilings and walls. This describes the poison that was used to kill the Jews.


2) The cement floor that I sat on was cold and clammy; the air in the room seemed made of chills. Chilling waves were seeping into my skin, like so many fingers trying to pull at my nerves and make my bones quiver. This was used to describe the room and the eerie atmosphere that the room, which was once used to kill thousands, felt like. Only my squirming skin could attest to my surroundings, and the crawling air made my lungs tighten. This shows that the author was scared.


3) My mental blockade cracked

Cracked described how the authors mental blockade was strong, but slowly broke, even though not visible how the authors mental blockade is breaking slowly, and the author is close to breaking down


Each pair of those shoes walked a path all its own, guided its owner through his or her life and to all of their deaths, this shows how the shoes will be with them forever. Each pair silently screaming someone’s murdered dreams. This shows that the people who owned the wear previously died innocently  without having a chance to continue live and fulfilling their dreams.

4) The death which struck daily, right behind their backyards. 
This shows that there were frequent deaths everyday. ]]> 2016-08-22 12:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119132318 Joan, Abigail, Yu Xuan, Sharon, Lisana https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119184442 The blue stains of Zyklon B streaking the ceilings and walls. It makes the readers visualise the stains on the walls, of the poison that was used to kill the jews as it appeals to our sense of sight

Cold and clammy,made of chills,chilling waves were seeping into my skin,make my bones quiverThis makes the reader feel the eerie and cold atmosphere in the room, which gives a sense of impending doom.It appeals to our sense of touch.
Thorns that stabbed my frightened eyes. This appeals to to our sense of sight. It gives an image that the fence looks so scary that it makes her feel traumatised as if they were really stabbing into her 
eyes.
Murdered dreams. The phrase decribes  how the aspirations of the jews that were killed forcibly were destroyed in chambers like these.   


]]> 2016-08-22 15:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119184442 Amrutha, Megan, Rachael, Rachel A https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119272343 1)  The cement floor that I sat on was cold and clammy, air in the room seemed made of chills. This appeals to reader's sense of touch . When you sit the floor, you can feel the temperature and texture of the floor.
The writer described the floor to be chilling to her skin and very unpleasantly sticky and slimy to sit on. It made use of the metaphor seemed made of chills to show that how frightening the room was. 

2) I could see how their fingers had scraped off the white paint, trying to escape. This appeals to my sense of sight. This appeals to reader's sense of sight. The word scraped makes me visualize how hard they pulled across the wall in desperate attempts to escape. It was so hard that even the paint came off.

3) Those chills seeped into my skin, like so many fingers trying to pull at my nerves. This appeals to the reader's sense of touch. This is an example of personification, when we give an inanimate subject, in this case the environment of the author, a human-like action. the author likens the air around her to be like fingers pulling at her skin, suggesting that the environment gives off a creepy aura and very negative energy.

4) Thousands and thousands of shoes, each pair different, each pair silently screaming someone's murdered dreams. It is an ex It shows that each person experienced different ways of death but they were all of the same level of fright. This also an example of personification , when we give an animate subject, in this case the shoes, a human-like action, the author likens the shoes to be expressing pain and fear by screaming but have no voice to scream out loud, suggesting that the environment was one which was brutally violent but one could not express his misery and pain.]]> 2016-08-23 00:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119272343 Charmaine, Astelle, Denise, Mohana, Sanjana( https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119272398 1)there are actually houses right next barbed wire, the fence with its thorns that stabbed my frightened eyes, enough to separate a universe  
-- the senses used are sense of sight from the phrase "its thorns that stabbed my frightened eyes"  
- the types of imagery is visual 
- No forms of comparison  
- It sounds a bit exaggerated when the thorns are so sharp they could separate a universe 
2)like so many fingers trying to pull at my nerves and make my bones quiver.
-sense of touch from the phrase "fingers trying to pull at my nerves"
- the type of imagery is tactile 
-No comparisons
-Not exaggerated
3)and surrounding it was an ocean of shoes, five feet deep
-Sense of sight "Ocean of shoes"(endless amount of shoes)
-Visual Imagery 
-No comparison
-The ocean because it is big and endless
4)the sky a leaden weight blocking the colours that grace free life
-Sense of sight "blocking the colours that grave free life'
-Visual Imagery
-No comparison 
-No exaggeration
5)The cement floor that I sat on was cold and clammy; the air in the room seemed made of chills. 
-the sense of touch "sat on was cold and clammy" and "the air in the room seemed to be made of chills"
-Tactile imagery
-No comparison
-No exaggeration]]> 2016-08-23 00:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119272398 Sasmithaa,Kezia,Natalie,Sofia and Michelle https://padlet.com/MrTay/jk3c2iopsoxa/wish/119274202
  • I saw the blue stains of Zyklon B streaking the ceilings and walls. This appeals to our sense of sight as the readers can visualise how the gas chamber which was used to kill the Jews was like and showed how the poison moved very quickly in a certain direction in the chaotic gas chamber. 
  • Cement floor that I sat on was cold and clammy. This appeals to our sense of touch as the readers are able to imagine how cold and eerie the room was and visualise the conditions of the gas chamber.
  • The air in the room seemed made of chills. This appeals to our sense of touch as readers could imagine how tense the atmosphere was and how frightened the Jews were, awaiting their death. 
  • Crawling air made my lungs tighten. This appeals to our sense of touch as readers could have a sense of how anxious the Jews were while they were waiting for horror to happen with terror. A personification was used in this descriptive phrase as air can’t crawl.  
  • Squirming skin could attest to my surroundings. This appeals to our sense of touch as readers could visualize how chilly the surroundings were which made the Jews squirm and uncomfortable. A personification was used in this descriptive phrase as air can’t squirm.

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