Starter quiz
- Pupils were tasked to write a letter recounting an imagined experience in the trenches of WW1. What does it mean to recount?
- to create a piece of fiction
- to describe something that happened, to tell its story ✓
- to use your imagination
- to adopt a persona
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- A pupil was tasked to write a letter recounting an imagined experience in the trenches of WW1. They start their letter with a greeting. Which greeting is accurate?
- dear millie
- Dear millie,
- dear Millie
- Dear Millie, ✓
- Dear Millie
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- Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was a British soldier. He is most famous for his ______ about the realities of trench warfare in World War One.
- 'poems' ✓
- Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was a soldier and poet. His poem about a gas attack in WW1 sees a speaker recount, "Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him ______."
- 'drowning' ✓
- Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was a soldier and poet. His poem about a gas attack in WW1 sees a speaker recount the death of another soldier: "I saw him drowning." What type of clause is this?
- a subordinate clause
- a dependent clause
- an independent clause ✓
- a simple clause
- a compound clause
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- In one of his 1917 letters to his mother, the poet and soldier Wilfred Owen describes a trench he was stuck in for 50 hours. “One entrance had been blown in and blocked. ______, the other remained.”
- 'So far' ✓
Exit quiz
- Often, writers try to create rhythm in their writing to engage their readers. What are the two main ways to create rhythm in writing?
- using varied metaphorical language
- using varied sentence types ✓
- using sub-headings to divide ideas
- using varied punctuation ✓
- using a varied vocabulary
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- A pupil wrote a sentence pretending to be a soldier on the frontline of WW1: "Gently crying, I tried to extricate myself from the wire." Which is the fronted adverbial?
- extricate
- from the wire
- I tried
- Gently
- Gently crying, ✓
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- A pupil wrote a sentence pretending to be a soldier on the frontline of WW1: "Looking left and right, I made a mad dash for the trench." Which is the fronted adverbial?
- Looking
- right
- mad dash
- Looking left and right ✓
- mad
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- A pupil wrote a sentence pretending to be a soldier on the frontline of WW1. Which sentence contains a correctly punctuated fronted adverbial?
- Seeking comfort I tore your letter open and read it immediately.
- seeking comfort, i tore your letter open and read it immediately
- seeking comfort, I tore your letter open and read it immediately.
- Seeking comfort, I tore your letter open and read it immediately
- Seeking comfort, I tore your letter open and read it immediately. ✓
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- Starting with the first, put these words and punctuation marks in order to create a sentence with a fronted adverbial. The first word of the sentence has not been given a capital letter.
- 1⇔moaning
- 2⇔,
- 3⇔I
- 4⇔rolled
- 5⇔sideways
- 6⇔.
- Starting with the first, put these words and punctuation marks in order to create a sentence with a fronted adverbial. The first word of the sentence has not been given a capital letter.
- 1⇔without
- 2⇔warning
- 3⇔,
- 4⇔the
- 5⇔shelling
- 6⇔began
- 7⇔.
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Key learning points
- Rhythm is the beat, flow, or pattern of a piece of music or writing.
- Writers create rhythm by using a variety of sentence types and punctuation.
- Fronted adverbials are words or phrases at the beginning of a sentence which describe the action that follows.
- Fronted adverbials can help organise writing by explaining how, when or why something happens.
- Fronted adverbials can help create tension.
Common misconception
Word choice is more important than rhythm.
Word choice and powerful literary methods (for example metaphor) are hard things to craft and deserve time and attention. But so too does your sentence construction. Consider if you heard one of your favourite songs but there was no rhythm to it.
Keywords
Rhythm - the beat, flow, or pattern of a piece of music or writing
Recount - to describe something that happened, to tell its story
Tension - the mental strain a reader is put under because of their suspicion that something bad is about to happen
Fronted adverbials - words or phrases at the beginning of a sentence which describe the action that follows
Variety - a range of different forms, types, things
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