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Gernre and Tone

Delve into the art of setting tone and genre conventions through language. Analyze various texts to understand how authors portray tone, genre, and fear. Engage in writing tasks to practice different genres and tones.

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Gernre and Tone

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  1. Gernre and Tone Exploring the language and crafting techniques that help us write and analyse genre and tone.

  2. Aims and Objectives To look at a range of texts in order to understand how writers set a tone and write for a particular genre. To find out what genre conventions are and how we recognise them. How does an author portray the tone through use of language? What genre, or genres, of writing does it suggest?

  3. Genre & Tone • Complete the following sentence in 10 different ways: It was almost midnight… Aim to conjure up a different place, setting, event or situation in each of your 10 sentences.

  4. Read and Discuss • Read the extract: the Looking glass by Michele Roberts • What is the tone of this excerpt? • How does the author portray the tone through use of language? • How does the sentence structure enhance this tone?

  5. Writing Task • Imagine a scene which includes water (sea, rivers or ocean, stream, lake, pond, puddle or waterfall). • Choose two different genre’s of writing: romance, thriller, sci-fi, historical, horror, rites of passage, humour, literary, chick-lit etc. and write the opening paragraph of each of your choices. Be sure to set the tone of each piece to reflect the genre of writing i.e. think if the tropes and conventions of the genre and the language to set the tone e.g. dark, eerie, ominous would be used in horror.

  6. Writing Task • Imagine a natural setting which includes water. Examples might be the sea or ocean, a river, a stream, lake, pond, puddle or waterfall. Choose two different genres of writing; romance, thriller, sci-fi, historical, horror, literary, humour, chick-lit etc., and write an opening paragraph for each of your choices in which you describe this setting. Be sure to set the tone of each to reflect the genre of writing.

  7. Fear • Warm up exercise: • What are your 10 personal fears

  8. Read and discuss the excerpts • Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier • A cream Cracker Under the Settee Alan Bennett • Fall of the house of Usher - A short story by Edgar Allan Poe • Compare and contrast the depictions of fear. • How does the writer depict fear? • What different context of fear do they use? • What are the characters afraid of and how does it manifest itself in the extract. • Hoes does the writer use perspective (1st person) and tone to effect the reader/viewer?

  9. Writing Task • Write in any form you like in which a person expresses their greatest fear.

  10. Crime • We have three distinct pieces of crime writing: • Fiction –Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler • Non-fiction Gunmen’s political Wat in Chicago by Ernest Hemingway • Non-fiction novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote • Read and discuss how the different forms use a similar tone. Compare and contrast the three pieces. • Write the opening to a crime story.

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