Techniques a writer uses across a paragraph, chapter or story to organise the information.

The area of attention in a story or piece of writing.

A unit of measurement equivalent to three miles.

'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea': explaining a writer's structural choices

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In 'Fiction: Science Fiction', pupils identify and comment on recurring images and symbolism in texts. In 'Fiction: Books that Changed my World', pupils explore multiple interpretations of an author's language choices.

In 'Fiction: Read Around the World', pupils identify and comment on a range of language devices in extracts from texts. In 'Fiction: Science Fiction Writing', pupils identify and comment on recurring images and symbolism in texts.

In this unit, pupls read extracts from three science fiction texts and analyse how writers use language for effect. They first look at how writers use sentences and punctuation, before looking at semantic fields, noun phrases and sensory language. Pupils use this to write thier own descriptions.

Fiction: science fiction writing

Who wrote 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'?

A variety of different narrative perspectives

The story 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' is written from which narrative perspective?

'The way a story is put together.' What is being described here?

Which of the below can be considered a 'structural feature'?

In 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' Verne describes the underwater forest in relation to other places on Earth ('the tropics' and 'the arctic'). What structural device is this?

Verne uses each paragraph to greater reveal the mysteries of this place.

Verne varies his use use of focus and pace.

Verne uses first-person perspective really well.

Verne focuses on the plant life in detail.

Which of the below is the best comment analysing structural features?

What do we mean by the term 'structure' in English? 

Adding one or more adjectives to describe a noun can make it ...  

What is being described here: 'A word that has the same meaning - or almost the same meaning - as another word.'

'The area of attention in a story or piece of writing.' What is being described here?

What is the missing word for the definition of 'narrative voice'? The {{}} a story is told from.

A league is a unit of measurement equivalent to ...

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