Writer's Methods

Writer's Methods

1. Imagery

   • auditory-hear
   • gustatory - taste
   • tactile - touch
   • olfactory - smell

2. Narrative voice - who is speaking and why?

3. figurative language

   • personification
   • metaphors
   • similes

4. pathetic fallacy

5. semantic field

6. verbs

   • adjectives
   • adverbs

7. Connotations e.g. Ghostly = haunting, unrested, death

8. Pathos - pity and terror

   • Bathos - Bringing things down to earth

9. Juxtaposition - two opposites next to each other to highlight their differences

   • Oxymoron - Two words next to each other that contrast e.g. 'My dearest enemy'
   • Contrast/Comparison

10. FORM,STRUCTURE AND LANGUAGE

    • Sentence structure (long and short) contributes to the pace

11. Dramatic tension and irony

12. Punctuation!

    • ellipses (...)
    • Commas
    • Exclamation marks