Starter quiz
- The emotional response that a writer wants to create in a reader is known as the...
- purpose
- mood ✓
- atmosphere
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- Free writing is when you...
- simply write without worrying about clarity or accuracy ✓
- create an in-depth plan before you begin writing
- revise and review a piece of writing
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- What does the word evoke mean?
- a phrase that has often been said
- to improve the quality, amount or strength of something
- to bring or recall a feeling, memory, or image to the mind ✓
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- Starting with the first, put the following synonyms for 'good' in order of how ambitous they are.
- 1⇔great
- 2⇔excellent
- 3⇔magnificent
- What is a simile?
- a direct comparison between two things, often using 'is' or 'was'
- comparing two things using 'like' or 'as' ✓
- giving human characterstic to inanimate objects
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- What is a metaphor?
- a direct comparison between two things, often using 'is' or 'was' ✓
- giving human characterstic to inanimate objects
- over exaggeration in piece of writing
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Exit quiz
- Descriptive writing is designed to...
- help the reader picture the scene ✓
- help the reader draw the scene
- help the reader with their own writing
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- Which two adjectives make you think of something beautiful?
- moonlit ✓
- pond
- glistened ✓
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- How does the use of language devices help create an effective piece of descriptive writing?
- Language devices are a way for the writer to communicate a mood or a feeling ✓
- Language devices show off how much you know about descriptive writing
- Language devices help a reader understand how a story progresses
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- Match the key terms to their definitions.
- Rewrite⇔a process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas ✓
- Ambitious⇔it needs a lot of skill and effort to be successful ✓
- Evoke⇔to recall a feeling, memory, or image ✓
- Cliche⇔a phrase or remark that has been expressed often ✓
- Enhance⇔to improve the quality, amount or strength of something ✓
- Which of the following is true for creating language devices?
- You should try to use clichés.
- You should try to evoke a particular emotion. ✓
- You should try to create an abstract image to make the reader think.
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- Complete the sentence: __________ can influence the mood of your writing. E.g 'arctic' and 'sapphire' have different connotations.
- language devices
- colour imagery ✓
- free writing
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Key learning points
- Free writing is designed to help you unleash your creativity.
- Rewriting is the process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas and choosing more precise words.
- You want to be precise and ambitious in your use of language devices in order to evoke specific emotions in the reader.
- The way you use colour imagery can also affect the mood of a piece of writing.
Common misconception
That using similes is in itself effective descriptive writing.
You should aim to have a simile that creates a specific emotion and avoids clichés.
Keywords
Rewrite - the process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas and choosing more precise words
Ambitious - it needs a lot of skill and effort to be successful
Evoke - to bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind
Cliche - a phrase, remark or opinion that has very often been said or expressed before
Enhance - to improve the quality, amount or strength of something
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