Narrative writing: Creating movement in our writing

Narrative writing: Creating movement in our writing

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will continue with our narrative writing response, looking in particular at how to make design choices that will give texture to our writing and create a sense of movement in our work. We'll be using an extract from Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' as a model as well as returning to our set text, 'Samphire' by Patrick O'Brian.

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5 Questions

Q1.
Which one of the following is not a type of narrative?
circular
fractured
linear
parallel
Correct answer: perpendicular
Q2.
'From this narrative perspective, the narrator knows everything.' Which of the following is the correct label?
first person
third person limited
third person multiple
Correct answer: third person omniscient
Q3.
What is it called when you open a narrative in the middle of a moment of action?
climax
Correct answer: medias res
mise en scène
petit pois
Q4.
Which narrative genre presents an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice?
Correct answer: dystopian
horror
science fiction
tragedy
Q5.
Narratives always have to start with a position of equilibrium. True or false?
Correct answer: false
true

5 Questions

Q1.
What is the opposite of narrowing the reader's perspective?
breadth perspective
landscape perspective
panorama perspective
Correct answer: widening the perspective
Q2.
What is an 'anti-climax'?
the moment after the climactic point
the moment just before the main action
Correct answer: when the tension has been rising and then something mundane happens
When you reach the key moment in the tension
Q3.
What literary technique is it when the fog in Jekyll and Hyde is used as a reflection of the characters' confusion?
empathy
metaphor
Correct answer: pathetic fallacy
personification
Q4.
What is a circular narrative?
Correct answer: the ending links back to the beginning
the narrative switches from past to present
the storyline goes round and round
two narratives run alongside one another
Q5.
Complete this sentence - "most narratives revolve around a single ______________ that represents the core of the story."
emotion
incident
person
Correct answer: question

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