Starter quiz
- The five senses are: taste, touch, smell, hearing, and ______.
- 'sight' ✓
- The mood of a literary text is ______.
- the time, place, and environment in which it occurs
- the emotional response that a writer wants to give the reader ✓
- relating to sensation or the physical senses
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- The setting of a text is ______.
- the time, place and environment in which it occurs ✓
- the time, mood and environment in which it occurs
- the characters, place and, environment in which it occurs
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- Personification is ______.
- giving human emotions to non-human things
- giving human characteristics to non-human things ✓
- giving human names to non-human things
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- Which emotion does 'the pansies swayed leisurely in the wind' create?
- jealousy
- relaxation ✓
- anxiousness
- excitement
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- Which of the five senses does 'the damp air clung to me' evoke?
- smell
- sight
- taste
- touch ✓
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Exit quiz
- What does sensory mean?
- relating to touch
- relating to the physical senses ✓
- relating to how you feel about something
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- Which of the five senses does 'the birds twittered softly' evoke?
- sight
- smell
- hearing ✓
- taste
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- What is figurative language?
- non-literal wording that adds creativity to your writing ✓
- literal wording that adds creativity to your writing
- sensory language that adds emotion to your writing
- anecdotes that add realism to your writing
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- Which emotion does 'the clawed branches swiped at me' suggest?
- happiness
- jealousy
- anger ✓
- sadness
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- What does atmosphere mean?
- the general mood or feeling of a text
- the way a writer uses setting or objects to create emotion ✓
- the way a writer uses sensory language to create emotion
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- Why is creating an atmospheric setting important for the reader?
- it helps transport them into the story ✓
- it shows off your creativity and flair
- it helps turn the concrete into abstract for them
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Key learning points
- The atmosphere in literature is the way an author uses setting, objects, or thoughts of characters to create mood.
- The atmosphere can be influenced by sensory and figurative language.
- Sensory language is language where some or all of the five senses are evoked.
- Figurative language is non-literal wording that adds creativity to your writing.
Common misconception
That descriptive writing is all about telling the reader what's in the image.
Descriptive writing is about showing the reader what's in the image through sensory and figurative language.
Keywords
Setting - the time, place and environment in which something occurs
Sensory - relating to sensation or the physical senses.
Atmospheric - the way an author uses setting, objects, or internal thoughts of characters to create emotion.
Mood - the emotional response that a writer wants to give the reader.
Figurative language - non-literal wording that adds creativity or rhetorical meaning to your writing.
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