Descriptive writing: Responding to a setting stimulus
Descriptive writing: Responding to a setting stimulus
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- In this lesson, we will be looking at how to plan effectively for a setting based descriptive task. We'll look at a range of planning tools to help us generate ideas and organise our material in a way which will have an impact on the reader.
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5 Questions
Q1.
"A description _______________ of a scene, person or experience." Complete the sentence from the options below.
lists the evidence
records the facts
tells a story
Q2.
Which of the following linguistic devices would not be commonly found in a descriptive response?
alliteration
metaphor
simile
Q3.
What does planning the organisation of your ideas mean? Look at the list below and select the correct response from the criteria we have looked at today.
how to add in descriptive detail
how to use linguistic devices
how you will include lots of different punctuation
Q4.
What is the name given to the technique where you section off 5 parts of the image?
grid
rectangle
square
Q5.
By choosing one particular detail as a focal point, we tried to expand our writing to include what?
a chance for our reader to paint an image in their head
a chance to have a pause and add some texture
extra detail and precise use of language