English / Level 3 / Literature / Examining literature
Content description
Discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative
Elaborations
identifying and discussing the use of descriptive adjectives (‘in the middle of a vast, bare plain’) to establish setting and atmosphere (‘the castle loomed dark and forbidding’) and to draw readers into events that follow
discussing the language used to describe the traits of characters in stories, their actions and motivations: ‘Claire was so lonely; she desperately wanted a pet and she was afraid she would do anything, just anything, to have one to care for’
