Starter quiz
- A writer’s attitude or emotional stance is also known as their ______.
- 'tone' ✓
- Before his death in 1918, how did poet Wilfred Owen communicate with his mother?
- letter ✓
- telegram
- through his poetry
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- Another way of saying a writer's attitude is...
- their viewpoint ✓
- their methods
- their intent
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- Wilfred Owen's poetry is known for its __________ portrayal of trench warfare during WWI.
- graphic ✓
- patriotic
- realistic ✓
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- What are we looking for when we focus on writer's use of structure?
- the figurative language they use
- the organisation of their ideas ✓
- their tone and attitudes
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- What does the term 'front line' mean?
- the people who stay in their own country during a war
- part of an army that is closest to the enemy ✓
- the place where the German and French armies met
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Exit quiz
- Match the keywords on the left with their definitions on the right.
- recount⇔to describe something that happened ✓
- execrate⇔curse, hate, detest ✓
- structure⇔how something is put together ✓
- tone⇔a writer’s attitude or emotional stance ✓
- A text's most basic structure can be considered as a ______ beginning, middle and end.
- 'clear' ✓
- In Owen's letter to his mother he write about a soldier being "court-martialled". How did Owen feel about this?
- angry ✓
- relieved
- apathetic
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- Starting with the first, put the structure of Owen's letter to his mother in the order it appeared in the letter.
- 1⇔establishes his relationship with his mother and overall tone/mood
- 2⇔a recount of a particularly horrifying event
- 3⇔Owen’s feelings and attitudes
- ______ brought small moments of joy to soldiers as well as their loved ones at home.
- 'letters' ✓
- In his letter to his mother, Owen describes that he as "suffered seventh ______".
- 'hell' ✓
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Key learning points
- Letters were a vital form of communication during World War One.
- Receiving and sending letters brought small moments of joy to those on the front, and those at home.
- Owen is best remembered for his poetry about World War One, but he also sent many letters home.
- Owen’s letters are different in structure, audience and tone from his poems, but still convey the horrors of war.
- Arguably, Owen’s letter is structured into three sections: scene-setting, recounting an event, conveying his attitude.
Common misconception
Poems are carefully crafted and use methods, but nonfiction letters won't have a structure or include methods.
Almost all writing follows some sort of structure even, for example, a shopping list. Methods are tools writers use to convey their messages. Every single word, technically, is a method.
Keywords
Recount - to describe something that happened, to tell its story
Court-martial - to be tried for a crime in which you are deemed to have broken military law
Execrate - curse, hate, detest
Structure - how something is put together; the most basic structure in a text is its beginning, middle and end
Tone - a writer’s attitude or emotional stance; encompasses the mood, feeling and overall atmosphere
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