Name That Genre
- Can be personal communication between people or more intentional (letter of rec, complaint, etc.)
- Purpose varies depending on context
- Greeting and closing
- Structure: order of importance, topical, general to specific
Letter/email
A particular type of figurative language when a thing, idea, or animal is given human attributes.
Personification
Identify a feature of FORM that you need to include in your response:
You have been asked to write a letter to your local paper, encouraging local businesses to reduce plastic packaging. In your writing, create a sense of concern and passion for the subject.
- Greeting
- Closure
- Date
- Prose text
Identify the context:
A famous person came to your school recently to give a talk about their career and life. Your headteacher has asked you to write a news story describing the event, which will be published in your school magazine.
A famous person came to your school recently to give a talk about their career and life.
Identify the sentence type:
The rain fell heavily.
(Function: makes a statement)
Declarative
- Promotional document used to introduce an organization, product, or service and inform prospective customers or members of the public of the benefits
- Purpose is to inform/persuade
-Generally contains a lot of details
- Some details may create ethos
- Structure is often topical
Brochure
A particularly strong form of metaphor, when a particular event, image or even person represents a larger idea
Symbolism
Identify the STRUCTURE that you need to use for your response:
You have been asked to write a letter to your local paper, encouraging local businesses to reduce plastic packaging. In your writing, create a sense of concern and passion for the subject.
Topical/point by point
Identify the audience:
A famous person came to your school recently to give a talk about their career and life. Your headteacher has asked you to write a news story describing the event, which will be published in your school magazine.
Students/staff at the school who read the school magazine
Identify the sentence type:
It is raining so heavy today!
(Function: expresses surprise, shock, strength of feeling and so on)
Exclamatory
- Includes an author's feelings about a specific event in their life written in the first person
- Purpose is to share an experience
- Use of first person POV & pronouns
- Often chronological
- Language can vary, but needs to create a strong voice and tone
Diary
An extreme exaggeration that cannot possibly be true
Hyperbole
Identify a feature of FORM that you need to include in your response:
Your family has recently moved to a new and unfamiliar place. That night, you write your diary, reflecting on the day's events and conveying your outlook and mood.
- Date
- Prose text
- "Dear diary,..."
Identify the purpose:
A famous person came to your school recently to give a talk about their career and life. Your headteacher has asked you to write a news story describing the event, which will be published in your school magazine.
To describe the event
Identify the sentence type:
Shut all of the windows.
(Function: give an order or command)
Imperative
- Critical appraisal of a book, play, movie, exhibition, etc., published in a newspaper or magazine
- Purpose is to inform/persuade
- Mixture of senses is relatively common (i.e. appearance, smell, taste, touch)
- Likely to use comparisons
- Structure could be topical for different aspects or could be chronological is taking audience through experience
Reviews
Appeals to the audience's sense of reason by making clear, logical connections between ideas using facts and statistics
Logos
Identify the STRUCTURE that you need to use for your response:
Your family has recently moved to a new and unfamiliar place. That night, you write your diary, reflecting on the day's events and conveying your outlook and mood.
Chronological
Identify the audience:
You have been asked to write a letter to your local paper, encouraging local businesses to reduce plastic packaging. In your writing, create a sense of concern and passion for the subject.
Local businesses/locals who read the paper
Identify the sentence type:
Is it raining?
(Function: ask a question)
Interrogative
- A piece about a particular subject (can come in different forms, often more formal)
- Purpose is to inform (varies)
- Figurative language is minimal
- Needs clear intro and conclusion
- Structure can vary between topical, order of importance, or other structures that suit the subject
Essay
- Focuses attention on the writer's or speaker's trustworthiness
- Can be shown through tone, reputation or honesty, or experience in a particular field
Ethos
Identify the STRUCTURE that you need to use for your response:
You have been asked to write an article or a travel website suggesting the sort of holiday that would be both fun and educational for young people. In your writing, offer advice and guidance for choosing a trip.
Topical/point by point
Identify the purpose:
You have been asked to write a letter to your local paper, encouraging local businesses to reduce plastic packaging. In your writing, create a sense of concern and passion for the subject.
Encourage local businesses to reduce plastic packaging
Identify the sentence type:
The rain fell, even though no one had predicted it.
(Function: expresses a main idea supported by other ideas which would not make sense independently)
Complex Sentence