Tuesday 29 January 2013

Year 8 Exam Prep

Reading Paper

Persuasive Techniques - A FOREST

Alliteration
Facts
Orders - or imperative eg 'Phone now...'
Rhetorical questions - Repetition
Emotive language
Second person - direct address ie 'you'  eg 'Could you help the life of a child...?'
Triplets - the grouping together of three ideas, words to impact on the reader eg Give more.  Give now.  Give hope

Don't forget to point, evidence and explain!

Remember to think about the pictures and headlines together!

Writing Paper

Writing to engage, entertain using descriptive writing

Colours
Adjectives
Sentence variety
Senses - sight, sound, smell, touch and taste
Imagery - metaphors, similes, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, pathetic fallacy

Don't forget your spelling, punctuation and grammar!

paragraphing:

Change of:
  • topic
  • time
  • place
  • character
new speaker, new line, 66" and 99"