The Forgotten fork I | Assessment Resource Banks

This task is about visual techniques and how they add meaning to a poem.

This resource uses a presentation from 'The Underwater Melon Man' by Flaws, Baysting and Dasent.

Read the poem and look closely at the illustration to help you answer the following questions.

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a) How does the lettering of the poem title match the topic of the poem?

b) Write three different ways the illustration gives you clues that the fork has been behind the cooker (stove) for a long time:

c) The illustration makes us feel trapped. How does it do this?

List three different ways:

c) The illustration makes us feel trapped. How does it do this?

List three different ways:

d) What is the name of the visual technique that is used to create this feeling of being trapped?

e) How is the illustration's gloomy mood achieved?

List two ways:

e) How is the illustration's gloomy mood achieved?

List two ways:

f) In the poem, personification is used to give the fork human qualities.

Identify one way the illustration makes the fork seem human?

f) In the poem, personification is used to give the fork human qualities.

Identify one way the illustration makes the fork seem human?