Transcript Thursday 22nd April 2010

Thursday 22nd April 2010
Mood & Atmosphere
Success criteria:
• I understand and identify the
techniques used to create atmosphere.
• I can plan a response to an exam-style
question.
Whole Text Level / Structural
Features:
• Tense – future / present
• Repetition / patterning
• Lexical set (death)
• Narrative voice (1st person) &
stance
• Control of information
• Generic features
• Characterisation
Sentence Level Features (Linguistic):
• Simple & minor sentences
• Declarative / interrogative /
exclamatory mood
• Commas & subordinate clauses
•Listing (syndetic / asyndetic)
• Use of adverbials / foregrounding
• Colons
Mood &
Atmospher
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Word Level Features (Linguistic):
Literary Techniques:
• “will” (auxiliary verb)
• Symbolism & motifs
• semantic fields / lexical sets
• Personification
• connotations
• Pathetic fallacy
• modifiers / adjectives
• Similes
• nouns – abstract, concrete, proper
• Metaphors
• verbs (dynamic, stative, auxiliary)
• Onomatopoeia / alliteration /
• pronouns
assonance
• determiners / articles
• compound words
• coinages
Exam-Style Question – Due Tuesday 27th April
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Remind yourself of the extract from p. 450-452 in
“The Time Traveler’s Wife”, dated Saturday, October
27, 1984. Discuss how mood and atmosphere is
created in this extract. Go on to explore how mood
and atmosphere is created in at least two other
scenes in this novel and in “The Time Machine”.
Use the cone to structure your approach
Compare to the first time we saw these events from
Clare’s perspective & the last time we see them from
Henry’s older perspective.
Select 2 scenes in “The Time Machine” when a similar
mood is created. Analyse & compare in detail.
Consider how narrative stance & voice as well as
control of information affect mood & atmosphere as
well as analysing on sentence & word level (including
imagery).