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Choosing first person questions:

1. In the first paragraph, how has the writer, Bram Stoker, created feelings of fear and horror in

the reader? (50 words min)

2. What is the narrator’s physical reaction when Count Dracula leans over him? (50 words min)

3. What is the advantage of this description being written in the first person? (100 words min)

4. Identify the first person pronouns in this passage.

Choosing second person questions:

1. What is the advertiser’s purpose? (50 words min)

2. What impression of Lord Howe Island is the advertiser presenting to the reader? (100 words

min)

3. What does the advertiser achieve by the repetition of the pronouns ‘you’ and ‘your’? (100

words min)

4. To whom does this advertisement appear to be directed?Extension questions

1. How is the interest maintained in this advertisement?

2. What ‘need’ in the reader is the advertisement targeting?

Choosing third person questions:

1. What is Watkin Tench’s purpose in this journal entry? (200 words min)

2. Identify the pronouns that show this entry was written in the third person.

3. Identify the phrase in the first sentence that shows Tench’s emotional reaction to the attack.

4. Tench’s book was successful and is still being read today. Suggest why. (200 words min )



Possible responses:

First person:

1.He describes Dracula’s mouth as ‘cruel-looking and his teeth as ‘sharp’

2. He shudders and experiences nausea.

3. The narrator is able to reveal his innermost feelings.

4. The first person pronouns are ‘I’ and ‘me’.

Second person:

1. The advertiser’s purpose is to encourage tourists to come to Lord Howe Island.

2. The advertiser is showing that Lord Howe Island is a tropical paradise with many activities

available.

3. The advertiser gives the impression of being engaged in conversation with the reader.

4. The advertisement seems to be targeting families seeking a relaxing holiday.

5. EXTENSION The advertiser entices the reader by describing magnificent scenery and

entertaining activities

6. EXTENSION The ‘need’ targeted is the desire to have a relaxing holiday enjoying the world of

nature.

Third person:

1. Tench’s purpose is to describe the whale attack resulting in the death of the three marines.

2. The pronouns are ‘he’, ‘them’, ‘they’, ‘her’, ‘it’, ‘she’, and ‘his’.

3. The phrase is a melancholy accident.

4. It gives an interesting record of life in the early days of the first settlement.



Bram Stoker creates fear in his readers by using descriptive language that appeals to the senses.

Such as, “The mouth, as far as I could see it, under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel

looking.” Another example of this is, “As the count leaned over me and his hands touched me, I

could not repress a shudder.”

The narrator’s physical reaction when the count leans over him is fear and quite possibly, disgust

and. It says that “It may have been his breath that was rank but a horrible feeling of nausea came

over me, which, do what I could, I could not conceal.”

The main advantage of this novel being written in first person is that you can experience what the

narrator is feeling firsthand, not really from the perspective of someone else, such as in second and

third person. When Bram Stoker was creating this piece of art he, no doubt, intended for the

audience to feel involved. That is probably a large part of the reason why “Dracula” was such a huge

success with its readers.

A few first person pronouns used in this paragraph are: I and me

SECOND PERSON:

The advertiser’s purpose in this passage is to make you want to visit Lord Howe Island. By using

second person, he’s making you picture yourself there, telling you that it is “a paradise where you

and your family will enjoy life to the full.”

The writer of this passage is broadcasting the perfect holiday destination. Using enticing language

like “Silky sand between your toes” and “You will enjoy communicating with the world of nature.”

Using language like this makes you picture an island that you would never want to leave

The advertiser, writing this passage, is using language like “you” and “your” (which is second

person), making you picture yourself there, imagining your doing these things and enjoying them.

This advertisement appears to be directed at parents and families.

THIRD PERSON:

Watkin Tench’s purpose in writing this journal entry is, no doubt, to recount a tale of epic adventure

about how he escaped the attack of a monstrous whale in 1970 with a bunch of marine crewmates

on board a small boat, prone to nature’s elements. He writes about how they tried to avoid the

whale, rowing in the opposite direction, but the boat was quickly filling with water.

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