Year 6 Fiction: Writing Longer Descriptions

Please complete a longer description based on the 'Dracula' prompt. Write 200 words.

Don't forget to use a full range of descriptive techniques, including similes, metaphor and personification. You can get tips on planning and writing a longer description here, at baldworm.co.uk.

Want to impress? Make sure you use a full range of punctuation and an 'elegant', varied prose style.

Due: Wednesday

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Year Six Creative Writing - Elegant Prose

L.O. To ensure you use an ‘elegant’ prose style when writing under timed conditions.

Your prose should be like Audrey Hepburn: elegant.

Tick off the following as you include it in your story:
 Impact sentence
 Compound sentence ( a sentence using the joining comma)
 Complex sentence (a sentence using the bracketing comma
 Brackets
 Colon
 Semi-colon
 Dash

Feeling clever? Try to include all of the above in the first fifteen lines of your story! This is not as easy as it sounds!

Homework: To redraft story written under timed conditions. You may choose to type this second draft. Focus on adding additional shown feelings.