Nouns
What are five common nouns in this classroom?
Example : desk, teacher, student, chair
Write down five verbs.
jumping, stand, writing, falling, drops
What is an adjective?
Describing words
List five literary devices studies in Year 8 English Studies this year.
Rhyming, alliteration, repetition, irony, similes, metaphors, sibilance, onomatopoiea
Why should you use literary devices in your writing?
It engages your reader and makes it easy for your audience to create mind pictures as they read your narrative.
What is a noun?
Verbs really only make sense when they are paired with what?
Nouns and pronouns
Write down five adjectives
broken, new, dark, scary, beautiful, shiny
What is the definition of irony?
The opposite of one might expect in a given situation.
whispered and scuttling
What is the difference between a common noun and a proper noun?
A proper noun is the special name we give to people, places and particular things. They have capitals.
Falling. Turn this verb into the past tense.
Fell.
Find a 'better' (or more interesting adjective) for each of these words. Sad, happy, mad, scared, bored
examples: gloomy, delighted, furious, terrified, tedious
Write a simile.
Her fingers were as cold as ice.
Write 'better' adjectives for these words: cold, hot, smell, feeling, fast
freezing, boiling, stinky, sensation, swift
Miss Johnson has cats. Turn this into a possessive noun phrase (hint: take out the 'has' and add two other things).
Miss Johnson's cats
Slipped. Turn the verb into the present tense.
Slip or is slipping
Why should you say 'terrified' when you are writing a narrative rather than 'scared'?
Evocative words help to make your writing more effective.
Write a metaphor
The hospital was a refrigerator
Miss Johnson is not happy. She is disappointed the students have not handed up their assignments on time. Write down the pronouns in this statement.
She and their
Finish the sentence with a verb. I could hardly hear over the sound of the water as it ……..
roared, fell
Turn these nouns into adjectives. Wood, child, hope, picture, memory
Woody/brackish, childlike, hopeful, picturesque, memorable
Miss Johnson was joyful that day, joking and jolly. This is an example of what
alliteration
Write a sentence that has both a metaphor and a simile in it.
Her mind shattered, the thought was like an anvil hammering in her mind.