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Top 25 Creative Writing Techniques!
Looking for techniques and tips to add more sparkle to your child's stories?
Give your child the edge in their creative writing English exams! Help them master those advanced creative techniques which make for a top-band story.
Does Your Child Know How To Describe In Detail?
Parents! Grab this FREE 12-sided resource to give your child the edge in English exams! Help them master their descriptive writing skills and gain inspiration from tips, words and sample sections. Download this teacher-designed PDF and help them get exam-ready!
Secrets Of Symbolism
The four main types of literary symbolism, are a key technique for students to discuss in comprehension extracts AND apply in their own creative writing.
Help your children analyse comprehension with more sophistication and write with more richness whilst helping them master this rich and varied literary technique.
Juxtaposition
Good or bad? Sunny or dark? Outdoors or indoors? Hero or villain? Literature is packed with juxtapositions. This type of juxtaposition is the placing of two elements side by side to create a contrast. You can do very well in literary analysis by commenting on contrast compositions. Poetry and stories are full of them! The writer might juxtapose a confident character with a shy one. In settings, they might juxtapose an unpleasant hot stuffy classroom with a fresh and temptingly open football field. Most of the time, juxtapositions work in literature to create thought-provoking or dramatic contrasts in language, characters, settings or even actions.
Narrative or Descriptive
Many exams offer a choice between the two styles of writing. You need to know which is which.
This is what I like to focus on in more depth with my students as most find it harder to do to a precise and structured level under timed conditions.
