To adorn something means to make it more beautiful or attractive.

The hue of an object is its shade or colour.

Plush means luxurious and expensive. When applied to fabrics specifically, plush can also mean soft.

If something is lurid, it is unpleasantly bright in colour.

Using shifts in focus and single paragraph outlines to plan descriptive writing

English

In 'Fiction: Inner Musings', pupils develop narrative writing skills. In 'Writing Masters', pupils experiment using language and structure to write interesting and creative texts.

Writing masters

create a list of colours you can see in the image

To help you create a more vivid description, when first seeing the image you are describing, it can be useful to...

How many focal points within the setting should you ideally choose? 

Which of these words relate to the colour of an object?

Which of the following are structural techniques you can use to give your writing flair?

introductory ideas and images you will use

ideas and images you will use in your paragraph

linguistic techniques you might want to use

What should you include in your supporting detail?

start with the big picture and then gradually zoom into granular detail

start with granular detail and then zoom out to bigger detail

shift focus and tone constantly throughout the piece

Choose the most appropriate response. Which structure might you use to reflect a character who is organised and particular about their routines?

Setting is the {{}} or surroundings where an event occurs.

a comparison of two similar things that is longer than one sentence

a comparison of two similar things that uses the words 'is' or 'are'

a comparison of two similar things that uses the words 'like' or 'as'

a comparison of two similar things that spans across a text.

What device is being used here: The room was bathed in sunlight. It was warm....almost too warm.

Put the order of components in a single paragraph outline in order from first to last.

Which of the following are synonyms for 'dirty?'

return to previous ideas from earlier paragraphs

Select the most appropriate answers. How can you create cohesion in your writing?

Starter Quiz