Sunday 6 September 2015

Prompts week 2 7-14 September 2015

If you are playing along, each piece of writing should include all four elements. 
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Photo Prompt

Text Type
(Alan Peat)
    sentence type 
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original story

Sunlight
hidden acrostic

Imagine x3 Jack and the beanstalk
help
film script


some, others The clever little tailor
I hear
Naga-uta

Adj, same adj The boy who cried wolf
I see
mini-saga
boys The Frog Prince
I taste
altered characters

double ly ending The Little Mermaid
opposite
Tanka


Irony The Swan Prince
wow!
sci-fi


noun, which, who, where The Envious Neighbour




For an explanation and examples of the sentence types, please follow this link:  Alan Peat's Sentence Structures: 25 ways to improve your sentence writing.
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Text types
Hidden Acrostic: the 'focus' word is spelled out vertically - but not in the first letter or last letter of each line. For example, it could be the second letter; the first letter of the second word or somewhere else.
Film Script: like a play script but should be:
 written in 12pt courier, names are in capitals; scene headings, slug line
Slug line has 3 parts: setting, interior (INT) or exterior (EXT) location, time of day (morning, dusk etc)
Film scripts don't tell emotion of character - focus is on what can be seen.
Naga-uta: Japanese for 'long song', has mini-Haikus, each stanza is 5-7, the last is 7-7. Separate chains of naga-uta can go off at a tangent, to add more detail, explain an underlying motive...
mini-saga: tell the story in exactly 50 words
Altered characters: all character traits are inverted. Good becomes evil and vice versa
Tanka: 5 line poetic form, syllable pattern 5-7-5-7-7. The last 2 lines change the tone or pace of the initial tree lines.: 
I was a sad girl
My stepmother hated me
So did my sisters

but I was sent to the ball
And now, look! I'm a Princess.
Sci-fi: change magical elements to technological elements.




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