Question 5 Flashcards
QUESTION 5
“Write a description of this image”
or
“Write the opening of a story in which…”
40 marks (24 content, 16 organisation)
45 mins (5 planning, 40 writing)
Descriptive or Narrative writing
Structure
- SETTING
- CHARACTER
- CONFLICT
- RESOLUTION
APROMISE
A lliteration P ersonification R epitition O nomatopoeia M etaphor I magery S imile E motive language
Anaphora, Allusion, Asyndeton, Pathetic fallacy, Parataxis, Pun,
SMOCQEST
S imple sentence M inor sentence O ne line paragraph C onnective Q estion E xclamation S emicolon T ricolon
Cyclical structure,
Sensory language
SIGHT
The magnificent sight of ___ rolled out before my eyes. I could see a plethora of ___
Incredible, sensational, awe-inspiring, majestic, breath-taking, sinister, petrifying, grim, dim, dazzling, blurred
Sensory language
SMELL
A fusion of incredible smells filled the air: ___
Wafted, drifted, pungent, overwhelming, aroma, scent, fragrance, acrid, musty, putrid, rancid
Sensory language
SOUND
The air was filled with the sound of ___
Bellow, blare, clamour, crackle, murmur, roar, rumble, hiss, rustle, sizzle, snarl, screech, thud, whimper, yelp
Sensory language
TASTE
My taste buds were alive with flavour - flavours of ___ danced delightfully across my tongue.
Flavourful, fruity, delicious, delectable, mouth-watering, bitter, bland, nauseating, rotten, scrumptious, sour, zesty
Sensory language
TOUCH
Tentatively, I reacher out and felt ___
Soft, spongy, velvety, rough, coarse, sharp, spiky, silky, prickly, oily, powdery, slimy
Abstract nouns
Acceptance Admiration Adoration Affection Afraid Agitation Agony Aggressive Alarm Alarmed Alienation Amazement Ambivalence Amusement Anger Anguish Annoyed Anticipating Anxious Apathy Apprehension Arrogant Assertive Astonished Attentiveness Attraction Aversion Awe Baffled Bewildered Bitter Bitter-sweetness Bliss Bored Brazen Brooding Calm Carefree Careless Caring Charity Cheeky Cheerfulness Claustrophobic Coercive Comfortable Confident Confusion Contempt Content Courage Cowardly Cruelty Curiosity Cynicism Dazed Dejection Delighted Demoralised Depressed Desire Despair Determined Disappointed Disbelief Discombobulated Discomfort Discontentment Disgruntled Disgust Disheartened Dislike Dismay Disorientated Dispirited Displeasure Distraction Distress Disturbed Dominant Doubt Dread Driven Dumbstruck Eagerness Ecstasy Elation Embarrassment Empathy Enchanted Enjoyment Enlightened Ennui Enthusiasm Envy Epiphany Euphoria Exasperated Excitement Expectancy Fascination Fear Flakey Focused Fondess Friendliness Fright Frustrated Fury Glee Gloomy Glumnrdd Gratitude Greed Grief Grouchiness Grumpiness Guilt Happiness Hate Hatred Halpness Helpless Homesickness Hope Hopeless Horrified Hospitable Humiliation Humility Hurt Hysteria Idleness Impatient Indifference Indignant Infatuation Infuriated Insecurity Insightful Insulted Interest Intrigued Irritated Isolated Jealousy Joviality Joy Jubilation Kind Lamenting Lazy Liking Loathing Lonely Longing Loopy Love Lust Mad Melancholy Miserable Miserly Mixed-up Modesty Moody Mortified Mystified Nasty Nauseated Negative Neglect Nervous Numb Obstinate Offended Optimistic Outrage Overwhelmed Panicked Paranoid Passion Patience Pensiveness Perplexed Persevering Pessimism Pitu Pleased Pleasure Politeness Positive Possessive Powerless Pride Puzzled Rage Rash Rattled Regret Rejected Relaxed Relieved Reluctant Remorse Resentment Resignment Resignation Restlessness Revulsion Ruthless Sadness Satisfication Scared Schadenfreude Scorn Caring Compassionate Conscious Critical Motivated Pitying Respecting Understanding Sentimental Srenity Shame Convival Adament Shameless Shocked Smug Sorrow Spite Stressed Strong Stubborn Stcuk Submissive Subverting Suffering Sullen Salvation Solace Surprise Suspense Suspicious Sympathy Tender Tension Terror Thankful Thrilled Tired Exhausted Knackered Tolerance Torment Triumphant Troubled Trust Uncertainty Undermined Uneasiness Unhappy Unnerved Unsettled Unsure Upset Vengeful Vicious Vigilent Vulnerable Weak Wistful Woe Worried Wrath Worthy Weary
Personification
Gasped seized snarling snatching shook consumed engulfed enveloped snared ensnaring invaded submerged smothered surged charged choked suffocated spiralled slithered danced lifted elevated pulsated paralysed
Positive
Joy spiralled around my body and elevated my heart.
Relief washed over me in a soothing wave.
Love elevated my heart and lifted me into the air.
Negative
Fear took me in its fearsome grasp and shook me to the core.
Terror surged though my bloodstream and choked the words in my throat.
Fury seized my mind and blinded any reason I had.
Instead of bad
Abhorrent hateful
Mundane boring
Odious extremely unpleasant
Obnoxious extremely unpleasant
Depraved having no morals
Reprehensible deserving to be punished
Instead of good
Virtuous having high morals
Commendable deserving of praise
Awe inspiring inspiring wonder
Astounding impressive and memorable
Reputable having a good reputation
