Using a motif in your writing
I can successfully use a motif in my writing.
Using a motif in your writing
I can successfully use a motif in my writing.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- A motif is a recurring image or ideas.
- Writers use motifs to build up imaginative layers of meaning.
- Shakespeare uses a motif of light to show Romeo’s impression of Juliet.
- Motifs need to be dynamic, using a range of techniques.
- You can use metaphors, personification and comparison when creating a motif.
Keywords
Yonder - some distance away, over there
Envious - wishing you had what someone else has
To entreat - to beg or implore
Dynamic - characterised by energy or action
Common misconception
It is easy to confuse motifs with extended metaphors.
A motif uses recurring elements that can employ a range of techniques. An extended metaphor is a sustained comparison across a text.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
Exit quiz
6 Questions
there
jealous
plead
energetic
taking words in thier usual or most basic sense
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when human characteristics are given to non human things
examining similarities and differences between two or more things