The writer uses words and phrases that associate young people with negative things e.g. Violence and vandalism.
There is a metaphor that says ” Beirut of the North” and Beirut is associated with violence and war which is suggesting that what they are saying is that young people are making it that kind of environment.
The writer says flood when talking about complaints to the police. Flood has connotation of everything happening once. So what the writer is saying is that all of these incidents and all of the complaints happened at once.
The writer says yobs when he talks about young people. So yobs has connotation of a negative point of view on teenagers.
March 20, 2015 at 3:19 pm
Hello Kai
You have made some good points about how the language used presents young people in a negative manner. I feel your analysis of “Beirut of the North is strongest.”
Target: Can you identify what technique the writer uses when he says local authorities “have been flooded with techniques” AND what this tells us about the young people?
Also remember when directly quoting from a text use quotation marks- “yobs”- :What do you picture in your head when you hear the word “yob?”
March 20, 2015 at 6:15 pm
Hello Kai,
I completely agree with the comments from Ms Andrews – you have identified a metaphor and begin to explore the connotations of the writer’s word choice.
I would like you to think about how the word connotation is used in a sentence. From r instance, it can be synonymous with the term association – what is also important here is to justify why the word might have these meanings associated with it.
Keep it up!
Mr North