Decide how far you agree with the statement and find evidence to support your argument. Remember to look at the rest of the extract as well.
Do you feel sympathy for the character in the other sections as well? Compare the two parts of the extract and use quotations to support your answer. Understanding the question The key to a successful essay is to focus on the question.
Example questions Example question one This extract is from a key moment in a novel. Example question three How does the writer create tension and suspense in this extract?
Example question four In the last twenty lines of this passage, the writer makes the reader feel sympathy for the main character. This is often something a police officer, or an inspector would do whilst, here, the robber is scanning which is ironic. This irony may be hinting at what may happen later in the passage as well as creating tension. Tension is also spotted in the repetition of words in of the lexical field of coldness, which send chills down the back of the reader.
In the story, the tension is even greater as we know the 2 characters will end up in conflict. The writer has used ellipses also short sentences to make the reader curios and to create tension. This gives the reader a feeling that they want to carry on reading.
The boy has started to ask himself questions e. This tells you how the character is feeling in this case nervouse. In the text the writer has uses:. To make the text a bit more exiting and tense to make the reader interested into the text and carry on reading.
The writer used good verbs and lots of tension when it was a calm story loads of questions appeared and the story got speedy also the sentence in a split second the story got worrying. The writer creates tension by using ellipses effectively because the writer could have used the children lay asleep in their beds … dreaming of the beautiful dreams the winged man given them but the writer used all but one… which is more effective.
The language that tells the reader that something bad is happening is the writer has used different adverbs to show slowly that something bad is happening like the start the writer used carefully then just as he was approaching him finally quickly. The purpose of the questions are to use the good things in the persons writing. Pace is added to the text because the adverbs quickly change and the use of exclamation marks and rhetorical questions and the ellipses which creates tension. Also the writer used adjectives to add pace in the text.
The signs of something bad happening are ellipses,rhetorical questions and the phrase: disaster had struck. The purpose of the rhetorical questions are to make extra tension and to make the text more interesting. Pace is added to the text by having adverbial phrases and tui. Frantically ,splashes of light began to began to dart across the room tells me that something bad is going to approach the boy.
The questions purpose is that they make you think what is going to happen and what the character is feeling. The pace is added to the text because the ellipscs are making the reader want to keep on reading it. The language that tells us that something bad is about to happen is darkness surrounded him and frantically.
First, the sentence is too long, and second, the writer uses passive voice three times can you catch them? It is not a time for internal dialogue unless that dialogue plays with the actions. For me as a writer, the best way to create an action scene is to get it down on the page. Once I have the scene written, I go back to give it the tension it needs through tight language, action verbs, quick dialogue, emotion and a ruthless editorial pen.
Action scenes are worth all the trouble and the sting of the red pen. Trust me. Your readers will thank you. Hi Julia, Let me know if the suggestions work for you. Interesting but surely the tension is due in part to writing the new text in present tense rather than the examples in past tense.
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