ReCap Literary Devices Explain the literary devices below

Re-Cap - Literary Devices Explain the literary devices below, with examples: ●Simile Comparing something using like or as - e. g. ‘La Qwarn is as tall as a tree’ ●Metaphor Saying that something is something else - e. g. ’La Qwarn is a tree’. ●Personification Giving an object human-like qualities - ‘the car blinked twice’. ●Hyperbole Exaggerating - e. g. ‘I’m starving’ ●Alliteration Using the same letters at the beginning of words in a sentence - ‘happy hooligans’, ‘I love the lions’.

DAFOREST Objectives ●To be able to recall some parts of DAFOREST and explain their use. ●To be able to plan using DAFOREST in an exam answer.

What is DAFOREST? An explanation: Everything in DAFOREST stands for something. It helps to structure your writing and remind you of what to include in your essay. It makes your writing more interesting and creative, and will help you gain higher marks in your exams.

What does DAFOREST stand for? D - Direct address A - Alliteration F - Facts O - Opinion R - Rhetorical question E - Emotive language S - Statistics T - Rule of three

●Below is the exam question we looked at last week. ●Please plan how you could use DAFOREST to answer this question. ●If you have time, begin answering the question using DAFOREST. ‘Nearly half of British school children can’t swim - and it’s their parents’ fault, ’ says Rebecca Adlington, Olympic swimmer. Write a magazine article persuading parents of the importance of teaching children to swim. Remember to: ●write a magazine article ●use language to persuade. Try to write approximately two pages. (24 marks)