Starter quiz
- Match these methods to their definitions ('Myths, legends and stories that inspire').
- alliteration⇔when two or more words start with the same letter ✓
- plosives⇔letters 'p', 't', 'k', 'b', 'd' and 'g' used to make a harsh sound ✓
- flashback⇔a transition to an earlier time in the life of one or more characters ✓
- Which sentences use plosives? ('Myths, legends and stories that inspire')
- Shahrazad shivered in the silence.
- Achilles ran swiftly and elegantly.
- The blindfold was taught and tight against Jane's head. ✓
- Simidele gripped the rope to her side, crushing her hips. ✓
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- Which sentence uses alliteration? ('Myths, legends and stories that inspire')
- Patroclus whooped and yelled as Achilles won the race.
- "Crash!" the ship bashed into the ocean's waves.
- Shahrazad took a deep breath and started her next tale.
- The jinni jumped out of the jar. ✓
- King Shahrayar was determined to kill Shahrazad.
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- Which puts the five part narrative structure in the correct order? ('Myths, legends and stories that inspire')
- exposition, climax, rising action, resolution, falling action
- rising action, falling action, exposition, climax, resolution
- rising action, climax, falling action, exposition, resolution
- climax, rising action, falling action, resolution, exposition
- exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution ✓
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- What is true of the five part narrative structure? ('Myths, legends and stories that inspire')
- It starts with the climax of your story to hook the reader.
- Each section equals one paragraph in your story.
- Each section requires the same number of paragraphs.
- The rising action is where you include a flashback.
- It is a way of structuring a convincing narrative. ✓
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- The five part narrative structure is made up of ______, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution ('Myths, legends and stories that inspire').
- 'exposition' ✓
Exit quiz
- Which sentence uses alliteration? ('Myths, legends and stories that inspire')
- Simidele shivered in the sea's icy water.
- Briseis couldn't see Achilles, yet she could hear him.
- The fisherman broke into a blistering sweat, barely able to stand upright. ✓
- The pilgrims were all making their way to Canterbury.
- The ship's canon blasted its ammunition loudly.
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- Which sentences use dejected (or a form of it) correctly? ('Myths, legends and stories that inspire').
- The fisherman was dejected that he had been made rich and escaped death.
- The executioner looked deject when faced with hurting Jane.
- Simidele could hear dejected crying from the ship of enslaved people. ✓
- Shahrazad refused to feel dejected despite facing the possibility of death. ✓
- The jinni felt dejected because now he could enjoy his freedom.
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- When writing a narrative piece, how can you create a sense of finality in the resolution of your writing? ('Myths, legends and stories that inspire')
- by having a character summarise what happened
- by repeating your first paragraph
- by introducing new ideas and characters so readers can imagine a new story
- by repeating selected words or phrases from your first paragraph ✓
- by creating an exposition that establishes your characters and settings
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- ______ is when two or more words close by start with the same letter or sound ('Myths, legends and stories that inspire').
- 'alliteration' ✓
- The five part narrative structure is made up of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and ______ ('Myths, legends and stories that inspire').
- 'resolution' ✓
- ______ is the use of letters 'p', 't', 'k', 'b', 'd' and 'g' to make a harsh sound ('Myths, legends and stories that inspire').
- 'plosives' ✓
Worksheet
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The 5 part narrative structure divides a story into exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.
- Each section of the narrative does not have to have the same number of paragraphs.
- You can engage your reader by using interesting methods in each paragraph.
- To structure your piece, you could link the concluding sentence of paragraphs to the next topic sentence.
- To further structure your piece, your first and final paragraph could repeat selected ideas or images.
Common misconception
You can't repeat any ideas in creative writing. Once you have used them once, you must create new ideas in every successive paragraph.
Repetition of certain ideas or images can give your writing a sense of structure. This is particularly true in your final paragraph where repeating ideas from your first paragraph can alert your reader to the idea that you are about to finish.
Keywords
Flashback - a transition in a story to an earlier time in the life of one or more characters
Alliteration - when two or more words close by to each other start with the same consonant
Plosives - use of letters 'p', 't', 'k', 'b', 'd' and 'g' to make a harsh sound; unlike alliteration, these letters don’t have to be found at the start of a word
Methods - the tools a writer uses to create their work; flashback, alliteration and plosives are all examples of methods
Dejected - unhappy
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