Writers use of language and its impact on the reader.

Character and Setting Description

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Review of Yesterday's Lesson

Yesterday we looked at improving sentences to make them more interesting and create vivid images in the reader's mind.

How can we do this?

Writing interesting sentences.

We can do this by using:

Powerful adjectives

Powerful verbs

adverbs

Writing interesting sentences.

Example:

The cat ran after the mouse.

The menacing cat bolted rapidly after the terrified mouse.

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Improve the sentences below by adding adjectives and adverbs as well as replacing the verbs with a more powerful verb.

The boy was walking up and down the classroom.

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The boy looked at the forest.

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The fire burnt the house.

Consider this statement.

We will not have a break today. History will follow right after English.

How does this make you feel

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What is the difference between mood and tone?

What is the difference between mood and tone?

Mood is the effect the writing has on the reader. Mood can also be called atmosphere.

Tone is how the author or writer feels.

How do writers create mood?

How can we tell a writer's tone?

Words That Describe Mood

Fanciful Melancholy Frightening

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Mysterious Frustrating Romantic

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Gloomy Sentimental Happy

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Sorrowful Joyful Suspenseful

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humorous serious sad

suspicious anxious tense depressing

Open to page 63 of your Hodder English Book.

Read the extract in activity 1.

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What effect does the extract have on you?

Mood

When Adam did not show up on time after school, his mother was frantic. She hastened to phone his friend's house to see if he stopped there. At first, Adam's voice on the other end of the line reassured her but her relief soon turned to wrath. After she knew Adam was safe, she really let him have it for not checking in.

What is the mood of this extract?

Why or what makes you think this?

How did you feel when you read the paragraph?

If you were asked to rewrite the extract to change its mood, what would you change?

Mood

It had been a grueling winter, but now spring was just around the corner. Kwesi decided that a garden would be just the thing to perk up everyone's spirits. His grandfather had a green thumb so she asked him to help her find the perfect spot in the yard. Mr. Boateng found a sunny area near the rear of their property. Together, they enclosed it with a short mesh fence to keep out rabbits and squirrels. Kwesi prepared the soil as his grandpa instructed, planted and watered his garden. By April, the plants had begun to sprout and in May Kwesi's flowers began to bloom.

What is the mood?

What clues help you arrive at this?

Mood:

The cold wind whipped as Stanton raced against it. This was no night for a calm ride. The horse's hooves clicked as Stanton whipped the reins. He clutched the king's message in one hand and his crossbow in the other. A wolf howled. He saw motion in the bushes ahead. Not a good sign. It could be an ambush. Stanton extended his finger over the trigger of the crossbow. More wolves howled together.

What is the mood?

What are the clues that help you?

Read the helpful hints on page 63 of your Hodder English Book.

Have you come across Simile, Onomatopoeia and personification before?

Have you used any of them in your writing before?

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Find one example of simile from the extract on page 62 of your Hodder English Book.

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Find one example of personification from the extract on page 62 of your Hodder English Book.

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Find one example of onomatopoeia from the extract on page 62 of your Hodder English Book.

Multiple Choice

Look at the sentence below.

The branches of the giant tree happily danced in the powerful breeze.

Which literary device is used in the sentence?

• Onomatopoeia.

• Simile

• Personification

Multiple Choice

Look at the sentence below.

The plumb boys sprang up from the rickety bamboo bed.

Which literary device is used in the sentence?

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

Multiple Choice

Look at the sentence below.

A lama is like a mini camel.

Which literary device is used in the sentence?

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

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Find one example of PERSONIFICA from the extract on page 62 of your Hodder English Book.