How to Write Fiction that Feels Real: Showing versus Telling
Showing versus Telling
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This lesson contains 21 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.
Lesson duration is: 45 min
Items in this lesson
Showing versus Telling
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PLANNING
Lesson aims
Flashback
Writing / coursebook
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LESSON AIMS
By the end of this lesson you will:
- have finished your story mountain
-have learnt the difference between showing and telling in your writing
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A
As his mother switched off the light and left the room, Michael tensed. He huddled under the covers, gripped the sheets, and held his breath as the wind brushed past the curtain.
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B
Michael was terribly afraid of the dark.
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Which is an example of "showing"?
A
As his mother switched off the light and left the room...
B
Michael was terribly afraid of the dark.
Slide 6 - Quiz
Slide 7 - Video
01:04
Telling is summarizing, showing is ...
A
simplifying
B
dramatizing
C
exaggerating
D
lying
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Example of showing:
Hey, there's my sandwich!' Lois exclaimed triumphantly, spying yesterday's meatball sub protruding from the heap of dirty laundry on the backseat of her car.
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Example of telling:
Lois was a horribly messy person.
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What if, instead of messy, Lois were compulsively neat?
Think about how you could show that.
What does a compulsively neat person do?
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Write one sentence in which you show that Lois is compulsively neat.
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Example of telling
It was a hot day.
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Example of showing:
Her shirt stuck to the small of her back, and sweat rolled down her thighs as she trudged across the parched grass to the porch, where a collie panted in the thin shadow offered by the rocking chair.
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Write one sentence in which you show a cold day.
Slide 16 - Open question
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SHOW ANGER, SADNESS, FEAR, SURPRISE
Slide 18 - Open question
Choose a prompt:
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https:
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Use this prompt to write for ten minutes. Show instead of tell!