Non-Fiction Writing

The Task Literary Devices Structure Vocabulary

Do you know the… • Allegory • Cyclical structure • Varied and suited to audience

• Purpose • Alliteration • Dialogue • Emotive if appropriate

• Audience • Anecdote • Ideas developed over the • Formal/informal according

• Direct address course of the piece to task
• Format
• Emotive language • Memorable conclusion
of the task?
• Foreboding • Paragraph lengths

• Foreshadowing • Punchy opening

• Hyperbole • Shift in focus

Discourse Markers
• Irony • Timeshift
• Additionally, Technical accuracy
• Metaphor • Varied pace
• Although • Accurate spelling
• Pathetic fallacy • Withholding information
• Consequently, • Sophisticated vocabulary
• Personification
• Firstly, choices
• Repetition
• Furthermore, • Accurate punctuation
• Rhetorical question
• However, • Variety of punctuation
• Rule of three
• In conclusion, • Variety of sentence structures
• Simile
• Nevertheless, • Variety of sentence lengths

• On the other hand, • Variety of paragraph lengths

• Therefore
• Whereas