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Checkpoint 7 Unit 2 Text 2E

This document provides a description of common literary devices and techniques used in horror stories, including setting stories in dark locations to create an ominous atmosphere. It notes how authors develop characters through direct speech, thoughts, feelings, and actions. Specific examples are given of creating suspense through the use of varied sentence structure, repetition, sounds, sights, vocabulary, and imagery.

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Checkpoint 7 Unit 2 Text 2E

This document provides a description of common literary devices and techniques used in horror stories, including setting stories in dark locations to create an ominous atmosphere. It notes how authors develop characters through direct speech, thoughts, feelings, and actions. Specific examples are given of creating suspense through the use of varied sentence structure, repetition, sounds, sights, vocabulary, and imagery.

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Checkpoint 7 Unit 2 Tall Tales Text 2E Page 22-24

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Unit 2 Text 2E
Feature Description Example / Quotation
1 Time of
day

2 Setting -The horror story is


set in a dark moor to
create a scary
atmosphere
3 Type of -There are good and
characters bad characters to
stand for certain
ideas representing
evil and justice.
-We also learn about
the character from
what other character
say about them, from
their own thoughts
and feelings
-The writer gives the
audience a picture of
the characters by
what they say and
how they say it, just
as much by what
they do

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4 Speed of -The writer uses


action direct speech.
-It starts with
someone speaking
to force the reader to
find out who they are
and what they’re
talking about

5 Sentence
length

6 Use of
repetition

7 Sense of P1 A terrible scream - a


sound L1 prolonged yell of horror and
anguish - burst out of the
silence of the moor.

8 Sense of
sight

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9 Vocabulary -Use different words P1 -Instead of the word


for the same thing ‘scream’, the writer used
a. Synonyms other words like ‘yell’, ‘burst
b. Adjectives out’, ‘cry’.
c. Verbs
-Use clever words to Other examples:
stand out now and a. Gasped, whispered,
then muttered rumble, moan,
-Don’t use a long rustle
word if you’re not b. Terrible = frightful,
sure what it means thrill, shaken to the
soul,agonised,menacing,
despairing, dreadful, dreary,
grotesque
c. Peering into, pealed
out
d. Thud, stamped his feet
on the ground
e. Darkness = gloom
f. Shoulders stooping,
body hunched
10 Imagery -Don’t start all your
sentences the same
way
-Think of different
ways to start your
sentences
a. Grab the
reader’s attention
b. Start with
something exciting

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