English Language Component 1 Section B Prose Writing

English Language Component 1 Section B: Prose Writing What Learning how to improve tension, anticipation and acute description in creative writing How Through the use of sentence structure, punctuation and figurative language. Why To make creative writing more interesting and engaging so the reader wants to read on.

English Language Component 1 Section B: Prose Writing Use all 5 Sentence Types to vary the pace in your story. Simple = one thing Compound = two things Complex = extra info. Minor = very short Multi-clausal = very long Punctuation Move on from full stops and commas to improve. Use these 4 Punctuation Types. : = emphasis - = tension … = anticipation ; = linking two points ‘‘ = irony/sarcasm For Acute Description Sentence Structure Punctuation for Tension Sentences to vary the pace how to make your story more interesting Figurative Language Use the following elements to describe people, places and objects in detail: 1. Simile 2. Metaphor 3. Personification 4. Onomatopoeia

Example including pace and tension in a story It wasn’t as if I meant it to happen. It just did. My mood didn’t help on the day – also I should probably mention the medication I was on for anxiety and mood swings which means I can say with justification that it’s all a blur now. Her name was Robin Allen: a nice girl I suppose although what does that really mean? Nice? The school I’m at is ‘high performing’ so they don’t like ‘cases’ like me: strange and ‘complicated’ as my parents like to say. So the ‘event’ (as they like to put it) hasn’t done the school any favours – although at least I got them on the news. ‘GIRL GOES MISSING WITHOUT A TRACE FROM HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOL’. Interesting that they described the school but not me; reinforces my point really that students are invisible. As I keep telling my parents, my decision to disappear wasn’t some big web of mystery and intrigue. I wanted to become a blank canvas; to be subtracted from everything and everyone. People are forgotten quickly, anyway – like a fragrance on a person that momentary as they pass. = sentences for pace = punctuation for tension = figurative language for acute description