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    13/8/24 'The Travel Agency' C.

    𖨠 Fantasy is a genre of imaginative stories, set in strange places


    with unusual, young or ordinary main characters & mentors, etc.
    𖨠 Adjectives and nouns are chosen carefully to describe
    situations and characters. The order is important; when an
    adjective is placed first, it emphasises the subject's quality;
    when it is placed after the noun, the focus switches to the
    subject and the quality becomes less prominent.
    𖨠 Unlike full length novels, short stories often do not give alot
    of detail. Instead, they give brief & spontaneous histories of
    the characters.
    𖨠 The tone / type of language used in advertising texts is
    usually overly friendly, but also knowledgeable: they use
    aggressive descriptions to promote what they're selling.
    𖨠 Stories can be divided into an opening, a middle and an
    ending. Once the characters and problems are introduced in
    the opening, the middle usually contains the quests and
    adventures that the characters go through, all you be resolved
    by the ending.
    𖨠 The middle of a story can also introduce new characters and
    develop new themes.
    𖨠 Flashback is a structural device; a part in the story goes back
    in time – from the present tl – to explain an event. Flashbacks
    can give readers more clarity about the present storyline and a
    deeper look into the characters. Flashbacks can also be used to
    contrast between the past and present, explaining a character's
    motives to go back to where they were, etc.
    𖨠 Writers present heroic characters through their actions and
    appearance. The voice of a heroic story often sounds 'elevated'
    as if the exciting qualities of the protagonist are reflected in
    the tone of the narrator: energy, similes, varied sentence
    types, powerful verbs, which help to create a sense of drama
    around protagonists.
    𖨠 When a writer carefully describes a setting or character, it
    usually means that the setting/character is important.
    𖨠 Nouns, adjectives, verbs, prepositions, conjunctions are all
    examples of word classes.
    𖨠 A prepositional phrase is a phrase that contains a
    preposition and describes the physical location of the subject.
    E.G: "On the right-hand wall,"
    𖨠 When labelling sentences, start by identifying the main
    verb, then look for nouns and whether they're accompanied by
    adjectives.
    𖨠 Most stories have secondary characters. These can be
    companions of the protagonist, etc. They are usually less
    important but can appear frequently. They are usually not
    given names and are associated with their role in the
    protagonists' journey; they do not really change or develop,
    and we know little about them.
    𖨠 When working out the meaning of words that you don't
    know, using context, word families & related words can help:
    using context, you can look at how the word is being used or
    described, and the speaker's tone: using word families, you
    can try to see if the word resembles a word you know
    (though this doesn't always work).
    𖨠 Using spider diagrams can help you to organize information
    you have found out about characters.
    𖨠 Closure is the sense of complete ending to a story, the
    feeling that all the problems introduced at the start are
    resolved, dénouement; generally, the feeling that the
    story has ended.
    𖨠 Resolution is the feeling that all problems have come to an
    end, similar to closure.
    𖨠 These two terms are used to describe the ending of a story:
    whether there was adequate closure, complete resolution, etc.

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