Year 10 GCSE English Language CCA – Narrative Writing After half term, Year 10 will be doing their first Controlled Conditions assignment in English lessons. This is a 1 hour assignment for GCSE English Language. It requires students to write a piece of narrative ( a fictional story or autobiographical...
Fictional Fallacy With just a few mutations, the influenza virus has become extremely lethal. It is spreading across our nation’s hospitals like wildfire and will soon reach all areas of the United States. This has become a pandemic. This is not a true story today, however, why couldn’t it happen sometime...
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normally laid out in columns. Lead: the main story on the front page. Headline: you know what a headline is. Feature: longish story with more detail. Editorial: opinion column stating newspaper’s opinion. Human interest story: focuses on a personal story - often sentimental. REVISION SUMMARY Name...
GCSE History B Controlled Assessment Exemplar Teacher Resource Bank / GCSE History B / Controlled Assessment Exemplar / Version 1.0 Contents Introduction 3 Question 1 4 The Sources 5 Candidate 1 8 Candidate 2 10 Candidate 3 12 Examiner’s comments on the answers ...
Fictional Dystopias: Comparing The Hunger Games and Divergent Books have the ability to take people on a journey through characters and the development of a good story. Fiction books are especially known for their captivating effect on readers. Many fiction books rely on the same generalized ideas...
Rags to Riches: A Success Story After reading the selections from the education chapter in Rereading America, we reached the conclusion that education, though open to all, varies widely in its quality and intellectual opportunities, and this has significant consequences for each and every student;...
Short Stories Often in literature, various stories can be linked by a connecting idea. Stories that fit this statement are William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” “A Courtship,” “All the Dead Pilots,” and “That Evening Sun.” These short stories all show Faulkner’s strengths as a short stories author...
Gilman’s story « The Yellow Wallpaper » suggest about middle-class women’s place and roles in this society? Though « The Yellow Wallpaper » is a fiction which aims at denouncing the « resting cure” used for insane people by the physician of the Victorian era, we can find in this short story lots of...
historian. History has been my favourite subject for as long as I can remember; since I was young I have loved to learn about ancient cities and the epic stories that have laid there foundations - from the awe inspiring tales of the great Pharaohs like Tutankhamen to the vast adventures of mythical heroes like...
Apart from the skillful narrative perspective, McEwan also tells his story in a metafictional style. Metafiction is “a literary device used to self-consciously and systematically draw attention to a work's status as an artifact. It poses questions about the relationship between fiction and reality, usually...
“Shakespeare in Love” is a fictional movie written about the great writer and poet, William Shakespeare. It is a perfect example of a timeless love story, including the classic components of drama, humor, and unsubstantial love. Although fictional, the real story line is the writing of "Romeo and Juliet"...
Throughout the book, he gives little clues, and little bits of information that can be put together to make sense once the reader understands the full story. When the reader doesn’t understand things, they keep on reading in hopes that they will find out. This is what makes suspense so great. Why does Stevenson...
communication breakdowns, or film or television scenes. Please be sure to describe where the clip comes from in your assignment (for example; the local news, story about …); or a shorter scene clip in a movie; a YouTube video; etc. Write a 750-1000-word paper in which you describeyour perception of the nature...
Picoult, is fiction in the young adult genre. This story is an amazing love story between ordinary girl and a fictional character from fairytale book. This story is set in the real world and the world in the fairytale book which has the same name as this story itself, ‘Between the Lines’. Utterly mesmerizing...
the characters and their lives. Throughout the stories, not only are the struggles of the pertinent characters examined, but also the struggles of the African American community as well as the Hispanic American community as a whole. During the stories, each prominent character goes through a phase in...
of University of Phoenix There are many facts about “Dracula” of which people are unaware of. Dracula, although widely considered to be a fictional character from Bram Stoker’s classic novel, is thought by many historians and researchers to be an actual historical figure named Vlad Tepes, who...
left is the soulless body of the man he once was. One realizes upon reading this story that war not only takes the lives of the soldiers killed in battle it also steals the souls of the ones who survive. In the story, Krebs lies to everyone all the time just to make small talk and yet when he happens...
that this piece of literature is more than either category will allow. While reading the pages of this story I get the feeling that I am not reading a novel, rather it is a series of short stories. I understand why the critics claim that this is not a novel. While the chapters in each section seem to...
She could have also been locked away on a ship and died through deadly diseases and illnesses. The most fascinating thing I learned through this story is that George Washington only ever met one of these spies. All interactions were written through letters. As most spies their identities was kept a...
Ideas for Writing. Question 3.) Judith Shakespeare Woolf writes a fictional story comparing the life of William Shakespeare to his hypothetical sister Judith Shakespeare in response to Professor Trevelyan. Set in the Shakespearean era she tells the of the journey that led William to become a well...
of Amontillado”- a repugnant story about revenge of Montresor consequent to Fortunato. Fortunato gives credence to Montresor as being a good friend, but he ends up with being confined and chained to a wall in the crypts. There are three categories of irony used in this story: verbal irony, dramatic irony...
remember and the duty to forget. This article will read Rwandan refugee author Gilbert Gatore’s 2008 novel, Le Passé devant soi (The Past Ahead), as a fictional exploration of the survivors’ dilemma. It will suggest that what emerges as the conspicuous absence of Rwanda in Gatore’s text reflects the tension...
hunt. I had no idea what book to read; I just wanted to read an interesting fictional novel to fill in my boring summer break. After about 5 to 10 minutes of cooling off I stood up from the chair and went to the fictional novel section. I started off looking at the adventurous books. None did I found...
report four studies that examined the relationship between foregrounding and responses to literary short stories. Source; Foregrounding, Defamiliarization, and Affect Response to Literary Stories By David S. Miall & Don Kuiken University of Alberta ( Taken From Website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/reading/foregrd...
Themes The Will to Live Life of Pi is a story about struggling to survive through seemingly insurmountable odds. The shipwrecked inhabitants of the little lifeboat don’t simply acquiesce to their fate: they actively fight against it. Pi abandons his lifelong vegetarianism and eats fish to sustain...
telescope” Type of omniscient narrator (see also Grogan, P. 118) “Wind was blowing in 1867” A storm is coming. Metafiction: conscious of its own fictional status. ‘Historiographic metafiction. (L. Hutcheon) conscious that what is paned on is then the state of affairs of a bygone era, but reflects also...
Beowulf was a fictional hero past down by word of mouth for generations. The story of Beowulf was able to stir the hearts of its reader for generations. How is it, however, that this story was able to keep its audience enraptured for so long? The answere is simple; the story changed. One of the ways...
Narrative Empirical allegiance to the real. Fictional allegiance to the ideal. Empirical (reality) splits into two main parts History (verifiable) Mimesis (imitates reality) Fictional splits into two parts Romance (beauty / ideas...
The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick is a very intriguing book that conveys many different stories though out; all leading to the same conclusion. When I began to read this piece of literature, I didn’t think I was its target audience. I felt this book was completely aimed at career...
Africa), brought to the Americas by slaves and served as a form of cultural resistance. Mr. Ludwig’s Tropical Dreamland (1980) – Nova Series The story of how US billionaire Daniel Ludwig reshapes the Amazon rain forest into managed plantations, a pulp mill, and creates his own city-state within the...
consists largely of non sequiturs. Descriptive passages are characterized by a display of artifice and verbal ingenuity that is often divorced from fictional function. Beckett attempts to subvert the representational nature of words by the use of figurative language. In addition Beckett relies heavily on...
ignorance that he had on slavery. Slavery was something that Huck new one side to. Jim was able to shed the ignorance with giving him the other side of the story to slavery, the slave’s side. The instance that the duke and the king were tarred was an instance that showed humanities cruelty against one another...
Literature and History compliment each other when used to create novels, fictional and non fictional books. Literature promotes a critical insight to historic events and can be used to engage readers on a personal level by making real life events clearer and more heartfelt. History, when used in Literature...
“quasi-fear” or as he later describes it, “fictional fear”(Walton 258, 264). I will argue that what Charles experiences, or any other person watching a horror movie experiences, is actual fear and that scientifically, it is not possible to draw a line between real and fictional emotion. The only possible distinction...
Rossellini had little to work with, but with what he had, he created a masterpiece. He used a unique style, in the direction of a documentary, which told a story that is still relevant, even to its viewers today. The film takes place in Rome and begins with Nazi officers, under the control of Bergmann, attempting...
“future” life together. The intentions of Allen, although not confirmed, seem to be an attempt to depict how everyday people fall so deeply in love with fictional movie characters but would be left heartbroken if they met the real actor playing the role. (Movie Notes) The unrealistic aspects displayed in this...
big or small. The texts “Batman Begins” and “The whole business with Kiffo and the Pitbull” both have very similar change throughout their stories. In the story “The whole business with Kiffo and the Pitbull”, change is presented everywhere, mainly and most obviously, in character development. The change...
also in many fictional stories and epic poetry. Dedication to one’s family or country is important in defining a hero. Valor is a word to describe a hero in times of war. Our soldiers continuing to fight the war in Iraq have valor. Being selfless is a quality in a fictional and non fictional character....
By: Ayn Rand Published 1957 Atlas Shrugged is a Fictional book that is about the United States Crumbling due to a bill that constricts the ability for bigger businesses to produce goods and raw material....
Imaginative/Fictional Narrative 1. Suppose you had invented a time machine. Write a story about what you did with it. 2. Write a story about trading places with your favorite TV, movie, or rock star. 3. One day a spaceship lands on the playground of your school... 4. Your shoe must have a story to tell...
My Antonia, by Willa Cather, is a fictional story based on true facts of what life was like not only for Americans who traveled West, but also for immigrants who came to America so that they could create a better life in the West. The story begins with the narrator and the main character, Jim, telling...
Holmes Since his inception in 1887(Detective Fiction), Sherlock Holmes could arguably be considered the archetype that influenced all subsequent fictional detectives. Today, his influence is apparent in many works of detective literature, television, and criminal investigation. The premise of shows...
you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” (Lee 112) Courage is present in both fictional characters (Finch) and real life people (Till-Mobley) when forced to solve difficult problems that involve racial injustice. In To Kill a Mockingbird...
|they are the ones who change the world for the better and inspire people to follow their footsteps | | |and how much fictional heroes and heroines in children books from around the world help young | | |learners understand and appreciate...
speak out to the world through him. In the very beginning of the story, author gave brief setting of the story. The first two elements of setting the author gave in this passage is the time and the place where the rest of the story will take place. In the passage Yossarian decides to stay in the hospital...
and suitable content that helps learning development, understanding the timeline of children's literature is critical, by identifying the styles of stories and how they were delivered and by whom, we gain a greater knowledge of the significance. The Renaissance period, gave us the only literature in use...
can argue that, only little thought was given to the overall message of the story, and that all the aspects of storytelling had been directed towards the cause of making a complete fool out of Nazism. Thus, the moral of the story was vaguely undefined. The glib response of the audience is an outcome...
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should be defended by any means necessary, a philosophy which remains controversial to this day. . There is an agreement between the reader and a fictional narrative that the reader will suspend their disbelief. Drawing attention to the fact that the book was written to teach the kids about something...
Grimm were the greatest fictional writers the world has ever known. They are famous for their classical collections of folk songs and folktales, especially for Kinder and Hausmarchen; generally known as Grimm’s Fairy Tales, which helped to establish the science of folklore. Stories such as Snow White and...
cartoons. There are many different genres of comedy which consist of ranging stories, where the comedy is derived from fictional history and then there is slapstick humor, where the comedy is thought of and purely non-fictional. Unlike tragedy, comedy is meant to ease the audience of all kinds of tragic...
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real person or profession, was very surprised when he said “Superman”. Children today are being bombarded with make believe heroes in make believe stories. They have lost the true meaning of what a hero really is. The media has distorted and misused the word hero to the point that children no longer...
narrative technique used in these works or through certain motifs that reappear throughout. According to Patricia Waugh, “Metafiction is a term given to fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artefact in order to pose questions about the relationship between...
monster embarks on a path of revenge and ruin. This is the first science fiction entitled Frankenstein by female writer Mary Shelley, which is a horror story that explores human nature and society. In George Levine’s critical essay Frankenstein and the Tradition of Realism, Professor Levine discusses both...
martial arts and boxing as the Rich Franklin-Vitor Belfort pay per view goes up against the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Juan Manuel Marquez fight. This is a big story line for some of the media covering the event, but is this really still a debate? This boxing vs. MMA debate was relevant two years ago. MMA has...
religion of his homeland. It is worth noting that, until Ali is discovered to be praying, there is no mention of Islam at all – until this point, this story follows a familiar father and son relationship. By leaving any mention of Islam until the audience is introduced with the characters, Kureishi is aiming...
mournful tales, epic adventures, songs of poetry, & true to life stories provide insight, inspiration & excitement in life. I enjoy expressing myself through writing. When I was a little girl I wrote & illustrated a fictional short story about a bear named Becca & her family. I still have the little...