TELLING THE STORY

NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS – CHARACTERISATION & FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE.

RECAP: PLOT & SETTING

Individually:
 Complete the recap activity in your ‘Narrative
Conventions – Work Package.’
 I will call on random students to share their
answers.
NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS: CHARACTERISATION
Characterisation is the way authors create and develop
their characters.

Characters are created to achieve certain responses from

a specific target audience.
These include:
 To be liked.
 To be trusted.
 To be disliked.
 To be distrusted.
NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS: CHARACTERISATION

How characters are developed can be remembered through the mnemonic STEAL.
 S: Speech (what the character says)
 T: Thoughts (what the character thinks)
 E: Effect on others (How other characters respond to them/what they make other characters do).
 A: Actions (what the character does).
 L: Looks (what the character looks like).
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CHARACTERISATION
1. What is the audience supposed to think/feel about this character?

2. How has this response been created through STEAL?

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CHARACTERISATION
1. What is the audience supposed to think/feel about this character?

2. How has this response been created through STEAL?

CHARACTERISATION

Individually:
 Read the extract from Boy by Roald Dahl.
 Answer the questions on characterisation.

I will:
 Call on random students to share their
answers.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE:

Figurative language are figures of speech that are not

supposed to be taken literally.

Figurative language features:

 Make descriptions more vivid.
 Make writing more interesting.
 Create a visual sense.
 Create emotional responses.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: COMMON FEATURES

Similes: A direct comparison between two things, using like

or as.
Example: When attacked in his home, he will fight like a
caged tiger.

Metaphors: An indirect comparison between two things.

When something is described as ‘being’ something else.
Example: My friend is a Shakespeare when in English class.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: COMMON FEATURES

Personification: Giving non-human objects, human attributes.

Example: The wind whispered through the dry grass.

Hyperbole: Overexaggerating for effect.

Example: The boy was dying to get a new school bag.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: COMMON FEATURES.

Oxymoron: Joining two opposite ideas together.

Examples: Bittersweet, seriously funny, open secret.

Onomatopoeia: Words that imitate the sounds things

make.
Examples: buzzing, splash, thump, wack, screech.
READ THE PASSAGE AND COMPLETE THE TABLE

Perched on top of the steep yet small cliffs, the huts encircled their inhabitants, hugging
them warmly. Lights, inside and out, shone brightly - golden; contrasting with the ghostly
orb hanging in the sky. At a glance, a visitor would assume the dwelling places to be built
from the same plan, but upon closer inspection each was unique.

One had a multitude of emerald eyes, rather like a spider, in its roof, another had a covered
veranda and a tall slate chimney stack. Yet another had a lower floor dug out from the sharp
slope down to the water, surrounded on one side by a two-tier balcony. All had one thing in
common: wooden decorations, intricately carved, forming the framework of each dome-
roofed house.
Figurative Language Feature Quote Effect on Reader
READ THE PASSAGE AND COMPLETE THE TABLE

That was how she spent her first two weeks in the house – exploring the garden and the grounds.

Her mother made her come back inside for dinner, and for lunch; and Coraline had to make sure she dressed up
warm before she went out, for it was a very cold summer that year; but go out she did, exploring, every day until the
day it rained, when Coraline had to stay inside.

"What should I do?" asked Coraline.

"Read a book," said her mother. "Watch a video. Play with your toys. Go and pester Miss Spink or Miss Forcible, or
the crazy old man upstairs."

"No," said Coraline. "I don't want to do those things. I want to explore."

"I don't really mind what you do," said Coraline's mother, "as long as you don't make a mess."

Coraline went over to the window and watched the rain come down. It wasn't the kind of rain you could go out in, it
was the other kind, the kind that threw itself down from the sky and splashed where it landed. It was rain that meant
business, and currently its business was turning the garden into a muddy, wet soup.
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Individually:
 Read the extract from Harry Potter by J.K Rowling
 Answer the questions on figurative language.

I will:
 Call on random students to share their answers.