Using figurative language and structure to create an unsettling atmosphere

English

In 'Step into the Unknown', pupils learn how to use a variety of sentences for deliberate effect. In the 'Dystopian Settings' unit, pupils will continue to use a range of sentence structures, to create atmospheric descriptions.

In 'When the Sky Falls' pupils write narratives inspired by a text. In 'Step Into the Unknown', using extracts from texts from the literary canon, pupils write descriptions of settings.

Step into the unknown: fiction reading and creative writing

What device is being described here?: 'where you give human characteristics to nonhuman objects or things.'

Which punctuation types might help create an eerie or unsettling atmosphere? 

The leaves whispered between themselves as I passed.

Which of the following would you use to create an unsettling atmosphere?

Complete the sentence: 'make sure that your description is well {{}} with a beginning, middle and end.'

zoom out and describe the image as a whole

Starting with the first, put the structure of a description into chronological order. 

the emotion a writer wants a reader to feel

the feeling or sense evoked by an environment or setting

What kind of language is being described here: 'language that uses the five senses to evoke a mental image in the reader.'

What language device is being described here?: 'a direct comparison of two things using 'is' or 'was.

where human emotions are given to non-human objects or things

a comparison between two things using 'like' or 'as'

giving human characteristics to non-human things

a sentence with two main clauses joined by a connective

a sentence with one main clause and one subordinate clause

Looking at your work to see what you did well

Proof-reading your work to check for errors

What does it mean to reflect on your work? 

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Using figurative language and structure to create an unsettling atmosphere

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.