Explaining how Burnett presents the garden setting in 'The Secret Garden' | English

Starter quiz

What is an extract?
- the blurb on the back cover
- a small piece of a text ✓
- the biography of the writer
- your opinion about the text
We stereotypically think of flowers as ______.
- beautiful ✓
- dangerous
- boring
The tone of a text is ______.
- the use of a variety of sentences
- the general happiness in a text
- the general mood or feeling of a text ✓
In order to evidence your opinion about a text you should use ______.
- 'quotations' ✓
Which of the following is a simile?
- The tree branches were manacles.
- The tree branches were like grasping hands. ✓
- The tree branches chuckled to themselves.
A writing technique that writers use to express ideas, convey meaning, and highlight important themes is known as ______ devices.
- 'language' ✓

The setting of a text is ______.
- the general mood or feeling of a text
- the range of punctuation in a text
- the use of language devices
- the location and time frame ✓
In Burnett's 'The Secret Garden', Mary felt ______ seeing the garden come to life.
- nothing
- excited ✓
- unhappy
Giving non-human things or objects human characteristics is known as ______.
- personification ✓
- imagery
- pathetic fallacy
- idealisation
In Burnett's 'The Secret Garden', the garden is given a magical quality when ______ are said to help the plants grow.
- humans
- witches
- fairies ✓
- angels
In Burnett's 'The Secret Garden', the flowers are personified when they are said to ______.
- dance ✓
- laugh
- cry
- run away
Which of the of the following is an effective topic sentence?
- In 'The Secret Garden', Burnett presents the garden as enchanting. ✓
- In 'The Secret Garden', Burnett uses similes to describe the garden.
- In 'The Secret Garden', the writer presents the garden as beautiful.

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Use the first read of an unseen extract to establish key information about plot, character and setting.
After a first read, read a text more closely, considering the meaning of specific words/phrases and their effects.
Writers deliberately use a range of language techniques to create meaning.
Every idea we have must be clearly supported by evidence from the text.

That we will all respond to a description in the same way.

The way we respond to a description and the language devices will always be unique because we all have different experiences.

Setting - the location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place.
Language devices - a writing technique that writers use to express ideas, convey meaning, and highlight important themes.
Tone - the general mood or feeling of a text.
Personification - when non-human objects or things are given human characteristics.