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IEB English FAL Prescribed Novel 2020 -

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Allan Karlsson is about to celebrate his hundredth birthday, and a party is planned at his retirement home. Allan is alert despite his age, but is not interested in attending the party. Instead he climbs out the window and disappears. He walks in his slippers to the nearest bus station, intending to travel as far as his available cash will allow. While at the bus station, he meets an angry young man with a suitcase so big that he can't get into the lavatory and take it with him. He desperately asks Allan to hold the case for him and wait. Within half a minute, Allan's bus arrives and Allan boards it, taking the suitcase with him onto the bus. However, the young man misses the bus. The suitcase turns out to be stuffed with drug dealers' money; Karlsson is chased by the dealers trying to recover their lost cash. Meanwhile, the retirement home calls the police to search for Allan. The police have no knowledge of the money and are only looking for Allan, who is known to be somewhat absent minded. However, Allan is simply trying to escape his retirement home confinement. He gets caught up in criminal activity by accident and ends up, unknown to him, being hunted by both the police and a gang of murderous criminals.

While dealing with Karlsson's adventures as a centenarian, the novel also provides flashbacks to increasingly fantastic episodes from his long life. As it proceeds, we learn that Karlsson had helped to make the atom bomb, became good friends with Harry S. Truman and General Franco, knew Stalin, Kim Jong-il, Mao Tse-tung, and Soong Mei-ling, hung out with Albert Einstein's less intelligent brother, foiled an assassination plot against Winston Churchill, and was a participant behind the scenes in many of the key events of the twentieth century.

[Source: Quoted from text on https://en.wikipedia.org/]

IEB English FAL Prescribed Poems Grade 12 2019 – 2020

2019

1.	Let me not to the marriage of true minds
2.	The world is too much with us
3.	Mending Wall
4.	Anthem for Doomed Youth
5.	i thank You God for most this amazing
6.	Musee des Beaux Arts
7.	On aging
8.	Refugee Mother and Child
9.	the night train
10.	Love poem for my country

2020

1.	Let me not to the marriage of true minds
2.	Prayer Before Birth
3.	Mending Wall
4.	Futility
5.	i thank You God for most this amazing
6.	Musee des Beaux Arts
7.	Walking Away
8.	Refugee Mother and Child
9.	Lament for a dead cow
10.	Love poem for my country

Figures of speech

Complete the following sentences by using the words in the word cloud.

1.   A newly created word or phrase is called a ________.

2.   "A rolling stone gathers no moss" is an example of a ________.

3.   A ________ is an exaggeration generally used for emphasis.

4.   A direct comparison in which like or as is not used, is called a _________.

5.   The repetition of a word/words at the beginning of different phrases, is called ________.

6.   Irony that is meant to hurt someone's feelings is called ________.

7.   Qualities of a person attributed to a thing is called ________.

8.   When a word sounds like the thing it described, is is called ________.

9.   ________ is a gentle way of expressing something that could be offensive.

10. When a symbol is used for something which it closely resembles, it is called ________.

11. ________ is the deliberate contradiction between what is said and what is meant.

12. A ________ question is directed to make a point, not to get an answer.

Crossword Puzzle: Literary devices

Complete the following crossword puzzle.

The following literary devices will be tested: 

Alliteration, Anaphora, Anastrophe, Apostrophe, Enjambment, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Oxymoron, Paradox, Parallelism, Personification, Proverb, Simile, Synaesthesia, Synecdoche

Across

2.    Human form or characteristics are attributed to anything other than a human being

5.    The syntactically correct order of subject, verb and object is changed around

7.    A popular saying that promotes a truth based on common sense or practical experience

10.  When two things are directly compared through the clear use of words such as 'like' or 'as'

13.  A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

14.  One sense is described in terms of another

15.  The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Down

1.   The use of repetition of one or more words at the start of consecutive phrases, clauses, or sentences to create emphasis

3.    A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

4.    Two or more parts of a sentence have a similar form so as to give the passage a definite pattern

6.    A part of something refers to the whole of something

8.    The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

9.    The repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of multiple words

11.  A figure of speech in which an absent person, an abstract idea or a thing is addressed

12.  A statement that seemingly contradicts itself yet might be true