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adventure features

The document outlines the purpose and structure of a narrative, emphasizing the importance of engaging the reader through a well-defined setting, character development, and a series of suspenseful events. It provides guidelines for effective writing techniques, such as using dialogue, descriptive language, and connectives to enhance the story's impact. Additionally, it advises writers on character flaws, emotional depth, and the necessity of a planned resolution to maintain coherence in the narrative.

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adventure features

The document outlines the purpose and structure of a narrative, emphasizing the importance of engaging the reader through a well-defined setting, character development, and a series of suspenseful events. It provides guidelines for effective writing techniques, such as using dialogue, descriptive language, and connectives to enhance the story's impact. Additionally, it advises writers on character flaws, emotional depth, and the necessity of a planned resolution to maintain coherence in the narrative.

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Purpose: To entertain and enthral.

To allow reader to escape from reality

Structure: Opening that includes a setting (of place and time) and introduces characters
A series of events that build up
A complication and a series of "cliff-hangers"
Resulting events
Resolution and ending

Features:

§ First or third person


§ Past tense (occasional use of present)
§ Chronological, possible use of time shifts, eg reflecting on past events
§ Main participants are human or animal contrasting good and bad
§ Use of stereotypical characters, settings and events, eg nightmares, night-time events,
being lost or chased
§ Connectives that signal time, eg early that morning, later on, once, etc.
§ Connectives used to shift attention, eg meanwhile, at that very moment
§ Connectives used to inject suspense, eg suddenly, without warning
§ Dialogue (speech) in differing tenses.
§ Verbs used to describe actions, thoughts and feelings.
§ Language effects used to create impact on reader, eg adverbs, adjectives, expressive
verbs, precise nouns, metaphors, similes, etc.

Writer's Knowledge:

§ Avoid telling the reader what to feel, eg it was scary, but make the reader feel it through
concrete description.
§ Avoid telling the reader what a character feels, eg she was sad, but show how
characters feel through what they say or do, eg her lip trembled.
§ Know your ending so that events can be planned and written that come together at the
end - otherwise some irrelevant details will creep in or the story may ramble.
§ Do not plan too many characters or you may lose control of them.
§ Give your main character some sort of flaw, eg Harry Potter's scar and make him or her
interesting.
§ Give your character a feeling at the start of the story, as this will influence events.
§ Keep thinking as you write what would this person do or say?
§ Plan just a few details about the character that tells the reader something about their
personality.
§ Include the weather, season and time of day as part of creating the setting.
§ To create suspense, lull the reader into a false sense of security - get characters doing
something pleasant and then introduce a dilemma.
§ Use exclamations for impact, eg Help!
§ Use questions to draw the reader into events, eg Where should they look now?
§ At the end, show how the main character has changed as a result of the story.
§ At the end, have the narrator or a character make comments on what has happened.

Adapted from The National Literacy Strategy Grammar for Writing p152/3

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