1. Creative writing task 2nd October 2015
What makes an effective piece of creative writing?
Creative writing

2. Today’s success criteria
Adventurous and sophisticated vocabulary
Use of the 5 senses
Figurative language
Setting to reflect mood (including pathetic fallacy)
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3. Vocabulary bank
Metamorphosis – transformation e.g. The metamorphosis saw him change into a monster. Bloodlust – a desire to see bloodshed e.g. Only then did her senses register the three men before her, the alley, and the familiar bloodlust in their glowing eyes. Barbarous – cruel and vicious e.g. His barbarous behaviour shocked and appalled me. Baleful – threatening or menacing e.g. She shot be a baleful look Glowering - scowling e.g. They glowered at me as I stood alone in the corner. Gimlet-eyed – a sharp or piercing glance e.g. His face was set in a grimace and he was gimlet eyed. Decrepit – crumbling or decaying e.g. The decrepit buildings towered over me Dilapidated – run down e.g. The dilapidated building had smashed windows and no door. Squalid – dirty and filfthy e.g. The conditions were squalid.

4. 5 senses
Make reference to sight, sound, touch, taste and smell to describe everything to experience.

5. Write for one minute about this image. Use all 5 senses.

6. Figurative language
This is an umbrella term that encompasses simile, metaphor and personification.
If it’s obvious, don’t use it!
“His teeth were like daggers. “
Try to think of unusual and adventurous figurative language
“The deep fog spread like a pool of quicksilver”

7. Can you think of a metaphor or simile to describe this image
Can you think of a metaphor or simile to describe this image? OR use personification to describe this image. Try to avoid a cliché.

8. Pathetic fallacy
“It was by this time about nine in the morning, and the first fog of the season. A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours;…” The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 4

9. Setting
“…a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street. It was two stories high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower story and a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper; and bore in every feature, the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence. The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained. Tramps slouched into the recess and struck matches on the panels; children kept shop upon the steps; the schoolboy had tried his knife on the mouldings; and for close on a generation, no one had appeared to drive away these random visitors or to repair their ravages.” The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 1

10. SHOW Don’t TELL
I was nervous – My nails had been bitten until my fingers were sore and my legs were trembling. I was scared -

11. Success criteria:
Adventurous and sophisticated vocabulary
Use of the 5 senses
Figurative language
Setting to reflect mood (including pathetic fallacy)
SHOW don’t TELL
TASK: Imagine you are a witness to the murder of Sir Danvers Carew by Mr Hyde. Write in pairs. You are each responsible for creating a paragraph. You must, therefore, make sure your paragraphs will fit together.

12. Review Listen to those who would like to share aloud.
Listen for the success criteria:
Adventurous and sophisticated vocabulary
Use of the 5 senses
Figurative language
Setting to reflect mood (including pathetic fallacy)
SHOW don’t TELL
WWW and why?