If you are currently preparing for your GCSE English Language or English Literature exams, then you know how important it is to be able to identify and analyse a wide range of language and structural techniques.
That is exacly why I've made my Fiction Technique Bank. It aims to teach you a wide range of language and structural techniques that you can use to help you study any set fiction text in your course, and/or to help you prepare for analysing unseen fiction texts.
The image in the blog gives you an idea of what to expect. For each technique, I provide:
- A definition
- An example
- Potential effects
The Potential Effects is incredibly useful - if I do say so myself - for helping you to start thinking about how you can analyse the techniques in the bank. Ultimately, that is what this technique bank aims to enhance; it is not about being able to recite what polysyndeton is or give an example of cacophony. It is about you being able to spot the more advanced crafting happening in a text and being able to then analyse how that crafting creates meaning. There's also, of course, a great secondary use: in your own creative writing. You can treat this bank like your own writer's toolkit in order to advance and diversify the techniques you use.
I think this is such an important and powerful resource that I have made it completely free. I have also made versions for Non-Fiction and Poetry, so all of your bases are covered.
Download yours over in the Study Materials section today.