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13.4.1 Short Story: Style (Class Reader)
English · Grade 8 · 2 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Personification: giving human qualities to non-human things
- Flashback: a scene from the past inserted into the present order
- Notes and dramatisation of class-reader parts that use those devices
What you will be able to do
- identify personification and flashback in a short story
- read and dramatise selected parts of a short story featuring personification and flashback
- appreciate the creative use of language in short stories
Key questions
“How does a writer make a story interesting?”
“Which qualities of a person can be given to animals?”
Lessons
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Hunt personification and flashback
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizMark human qualities given to things. Map a flashback against the present order of events.
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Dramatise the wall and the memory
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizAct the personified wall and the Baba flashback. Keep short notes of the devices with examples.