Imaginative writing

• Question 1

  Identify question

  1 x quotation

  1 mark
• Question 2

  3 ideas related to the question.

  3 x P.E.T.A. paragraphs

  6 marks.
• Question 3

  Identify question

  1 x quotation

  1 mark
• Question 4

  5 quotes

  3 ideas related to the question

  2 x P.E.T.A.L. paragraphs and 1 x P.E.T.A. paragraph

  10 marks
• Question 5


  Comparison question.

  3 ideas related to the question

  3 evidences for each text

  6 marks.
• Question 6

  Read the whole of both texts (start, middle and end).

  3 ideas linked to the question with techniques.

  3 x P.E.T.A.L.E.A. paragraphs

  16 marks
• Short sentences create impact
• Imagery helps the reader to visualise the scene.
• Story Mountain framework

  1. Beginning paragraph

  2. Build up paragraph

  3. Problem paragraph

  4. Resolution paragraph

  5. Ending paragraph
• Beginning paragraph


  Establishes the setting, weather, and main character
• Build up paragraph


  Main character goes on an adventure
• Problem paragraph


  Main character encounters an obstacle or villain
• Resolution paragraph


  Main character fights or flees the obstacle
• Ending paragraph


  Shows how the main character and/or setting has changed
• Use sensory language (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) to establish atmosphere and mood
• Language techniques to include

  • Pathetic fallacy
  • Simile
  • Hyperbole
  • Alliteration
  • Onomatopoeia
• Structural techniques to include

  • Repetition
  • Listing
  • Tricolon
  • Ellipsis
  • Minor sentence
• Metaphors are used to describe something as if it is another thing.
• Similes are used to compare two things using 'like'.
• The use of dialogue can reveal character's personality or feelings.
• Personification gives human qualities or characteristics to non-human objects.
• Sibilance refers to the repetition of s sounds, creating an eerie effect.
• Onomatopoeia creates words that sound like the action they represent.
• Alliteration uses repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
• Assonance occurs when vowel sounds repeat within words.
• Hyperbole exaggerates events or actions beyond what actually happened.
• Metaphor compares one thing with another without using "like" or "as".
• Analyzing language and structure

  1. Write an opening point

  2. Provide evidence

  3. Explain the evidence

  4. Link back to the question
• Language analysis

  • Adjectives
  • Metaphors
  • Dialogue
  • Sentence structure
• Structure analysis

  • Repetition
  • Listing
  • Sentence types
• Dialogue


  • Effective in shifting the power balance