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Settings for ghost stories: what to use when creating your opening
Settings for ghost stories: what to use when creating your opening
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Key elements of creating an opening for a ghost story
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Element 3 -
weather warnings
weather forecasts
the weather
whether
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Element 4 -
sounds
Silence is golden.
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Silence
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What other elements of figurative language should you use to create your descriptions?
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Alliteration
All of these
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How many main elements of setting are there to consider?
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Sometimes 5
Sometimes 6
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What do we mean by 'setting'?
fixing something with glue
the time and location in which a story takes place
when you are upset by something
the place where you sit for lunch
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Element 2 -
sunlight and shade
red mist
light, dark and colour
as dark as possible
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What role does descriptive language have when establishing the setting of a story?
It helps create a more vivid picture for the reader.
It encourages us to use a dictionary.
It confuses the mind.
It complicates the story.
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Element 1 -
The place you are going to write about
What a place looks like
A place that you like
What people like about a place
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A REALLY good setting will be...
normal and uninteresting
believable and effective
complex and unreal
unbelievable and boring
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Element 6?
Something ordinary
An alien
A ghost
A sixth sense 'feeling' that a place creates
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How are you going to create your setting next time you write?
Leave something to the readers' imagination.
Use the 5 elements of settings.
Use all of these
Use plenty of descriptive language and figurative technique.
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Element 5 -
Nonsense
The senses of smell, touch and taste.
Sensitivity
Common sense
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What elements of figurative language should you use to create your descriptions?
Similes
All of these
Hyperboles
Metaphors