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Year 7

Using ambitious language and colour imagery to improve your descriptive writing

I can rewrite a description of an image using ambitious language devices and colour imagery.

New
New
Year 7

Using ambitious language and colour imagery to improve your descriptive writing

I can rewrite a description of an image using ambitious language devices and colour imagery.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Free writing is designed to help you unleash your creativity.
  2. Rewriting is the process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas and choosing more precise words.
  3. You want to be precise and ambitious in your use of language devices in order to evoke specific emotions in the reader.
  4. The way you use colour imagery can also affect the mood of a piece of writing.

Common misconception

That using similes is in itself effective descriptive writing.

You should aim to have a simile that creates a specific emotion and avoids clichés.

Keywords

  • Rewrite - the process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas and choosing more precise words

  • Ambitious - it needs a lot of skill and effort to be successful

  • Evoke - to bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind

  • Cliche - a phrase, remark or opinion that has very often been said or expressed before

  • Enhance - to improve the quality, amount or strength of something

You could ask the pupils to peer assess their use of similes and colour imagery to help them see how they could enhance them.
Teacher tip

Licence

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6 Questions

Q1.
The emotional response that a writer wants to create in a reader is known as the...
purpose
Correct answer: mood
atmosphere
Q2.
Free writing is when you...
Correct answer: simply write without worrying about clarity or accuracy
create an in-depth plan before you begin writing
revise and review a piece of writing
Q3.
What does the word evoke mean?
a phrase that has often been said
to improve the quality, amount or strength of something
Correct answer: to bring or recall a feeling, memory, or image to the mind
Q4.
Starting with the first, put the following synonyms for 'good' in order of how ambitous they are.
1 - great
2 - excellent
3 - magnificent
Q5.
What is a simile?
a direct comparison between two things, often using 'is' or 'was'
Correct answer: comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'
giving human characterstic to inanimate objects
Q6.
What is a metaphor?
Correct answer: a direct comparison between two things, often using 'is' or 'was'
giving human characterstic to inanimate objects
over exaggeration in piece of writing

6 Questions

Q1.
Descriptive writing is designed to...
Correct answer: help the reader picture the scene
help the reader draw the scene
help the reader with their own writing
Q2.
Which two adjectives make you think of something beautiful?
Correct answer: moonlit
pond
Correct answer: glistened
Q3.
How does the use of language devices help create an effective piece of descriptive writing?
Correct answer: Language devices are a way for the writer to communicate a mood or a feeling
Language devices show off how much you know about descriptive writing
Language devices help a reader understand how a story progresses
Q4.
Match the key terms to their definitions.
Correct Answer:Rewrite,a process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas

a process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas

Correct Answer:Ambitious,it needs a lot of skill and effort to be successful

it needs a lot of skill and effort to be successful

Correct Answer:Evoke,to recall a feeling, memory, or image

to recall a feeling, memory, or image

Correct Answer:Cliche, a phrase or remark that has been expressed often

a phrase or remark that has been expressed often

Correct Answer:Enhance,to improve the quality, amount or strength of something

to improve the quality, amount or strength of something

Q5.
Which of the following is true for creating language devices?
You should try to use clichés.
Correct answer: You should try to evoke a particular emotion.
You should try to create an abstract image to make the reader think.
Q6.
Complete the sentence: __________ can influence the mood of your writing. E.g 'arctic' and 'sapphire' have different connotations.
language devices
Correct answer: colour imagery
free writing