Language
Appeals to all five of our senses: taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound.
What is descriptive language?
Events are written in sequence.
How do I write it chronologically?
Establishes the characters, who they are, what they do and why they are important.
What is in the Orientation?
A event or challenge the character does not overcome.
What is a failure?
The process of reading another's story to provide feedback.
What is peer feedback?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
Written for children.
Who is the audience?
Describes the setting with vivid detail using imagery, descriptive and emotive language.
What is the Orientation?
Describes character feelings and thoughts.
What is inner dialogue?
The process of looking for words you no longer need or have over used.
What is the S in RSTAR: Substitute?
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
What is a simile?
What is the purpose of the narrative?
Establishes what the problem is and importantly, why, it is a problem.
What is the narrative rising action or complications?
A conversation between two or more people or characters.
What is dialogue?
The process looking to add more detail, language and description.
What is the A in RSTAR: Add?
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is a metaphor?
The integration of the spiritual with the material and an emphasis on an individual's relationship to the community.
What are indigenous values?
The peak of the story, establishing a great challenge the character faces and must overcome somehow.
What is the narrative climax?
A description of the feelings experiences and how they changed the character.
What is character reflection?
The process of taking out words/sentences that are not relevant to your story.
What is the T in RSTAR: Take things out?
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
Tradition, conformity and security.
What are indigenous values?
Explicitly describes the life lesson, what the character learnt and what the reader/audience should learn from the story as well.
What is the coda?
Using language features to create a well rounded and described character that children (your audience) can connect to.
What is character development?
The process of rearranging events in the memoir, or sentences to ensure it flows and makes sense to the reader.
What is the second R in RSTAR: Rearrange?