HIGHER SENTENCE STRUCTURE

What is a list used to do?

• draw attention to additional information

• draw attention to volume and variety

• repeat something to make it memorable

• create drama and add impact

What is a rhetorical question used to do?

• Pose a question to the reader and encourage them to think

• Build up to something exciting

• Provide additional information

• Create drama and add impact

What is parenthesis used to do?

• Repeat something to make it memorable

• Build up to something exciting

• Build up tension and then let the reader down

• Provide the reader with additional information

What is repetition used to do?

• Build up tension and then let the reader down

• Repeat something to make it more memorable

• Provide the reader with additional information

• Create drama and add impact

What is a short sentence used to do?

• Emphasise the volume and variety of something

• Repeat something to make it memorable

• Build up to something exciting happening

• Create drama and add impact

What is ellipsis (...) used to do?

• Provide additional information

• Build up to something exciting

• Imply uncertainty or lack of resolution

• Pose a question to the reader to get them to think carefully about an issue

What does a climax do?

• Build up to something exciting

• Repeat something to make it memorable

• Create drama and impact

• Imply uncertainty or lack of resolution

What is an anti-climax used to do?

• Build up tension to then let the reader down

• Create drama and impact

• Emphasise the volume and/or variety of something

• Repeat something to make it more memorable

IDENTIFY THE TECHNIQUES USED BELOW:

The big stairs led up to a big house with a big front door. Breathe, breathe, breathe - I told myself. I only have to stay for one second. I can do it.

• Repetition

• List

• Short sentence

• Parenthesis

IDENTIFY THE TECHNIQUES USED BELOW:

The television - which had only a tiny screen - was obscured by the dozens of people crammed into the living room. The sofa, armchairs and a row of deckchairs acquired for the occasion were all occupied by gawping neighbours.

• Climax

• Anti-climax

• List

• Parenthesis