Through the last couple of lessons, we have been looking at the various different ways we could write our two pieces for coursework. We have looked at:
- Graduation speeches
- TED talks
- Stand-up comedy
- Monologues
- Vlogs
- Mental Floss
- Influenced novel extracts (eg. Pride and Prejudice --> Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)
- Political speeches
- Editorial articles
- Horrible Histories
- Recipes
- Books 'for Dummies'
- Soapbox
We found that many devices were necessary to produce a strong piece of writing whether it is intended to be spoken or not. We identified strengths in:
- Parallelism- ("do not ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country")
- Triplets/Trios/Triads
- Rhetorical Questions
- Anecdotes- (personal)
- Humour- (puns)
- Listing
- Rhythm in delivery- (timing)
- Complicated to simple sentence structure
- Emotive language and register
- Opinions
- Alliteration and Sibilance
- Direct Address ('you' 'we')
- Facts and Statistics
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