by melaniewp | Jan 8, 2014 | 11+, Common Entrance, Creative Writing, KS2, KS3, Sensory Language, Writing to Describe
What is Sensory Language?Get examples of how to describe light and shadeGet more interesting describing words.Sensory describing words for a forest.How to use sensory language, with examples.
by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | 11+, Common Entrance, GCSE, IGCSE, KS3, Poetry, Sensory Language, Technical Terms
What is sensory langauge?It’s description that appeals to the five senses in a noticeable way.e.g.Images flashed at the front of the room: smashed up forests smouldering, hillsides washed away in swirling brown mud, seabirds flapping in oil, flames sweeping across...
by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | 11+, Common Entrance, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, KS3, Sensory Language, Setting
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad Context: The main character, Marlow, is travelling into a remote part of the Congo to recover an employee of his company, Kurtz, who has ‘gone native’. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization (of...
by melaniewp | Apr 1, 2013 | 11+, Common Entrance, Creative Writing, Describing Words, GCSE, IGCSE, KS2, KS3, SATs KS2, Sensory Language, Verbs, Vocabulary, Writing
If you want to write a story with more interesting description, try this – from age 8 to age 18. Sometimes a thesaurus is too big, too hard to use and you don’t know what word you’re looking for anyway. This sheet is for inspiration for stories....
by melaniewp | Mar 8, 2013 | alliteration, Antithesis, comparative, GCSE, juxtaposition, liquid, Metaphors, Onomatopoeia, Oxymoron, personification, plosive, Semantic Fields, Sensory Language, sibilant, Similes, superlative, Technical Terms
Want an A or A* in GCSE English? Here’s the secret (pass it on).Follow this checklist of things to look for in the question ‘How does the writer use language?’Learn as many as you can. Yes, you can revise English. Don’t forget to explain...
