Prose fiction

• Engels
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

Goals for today 

Practise an unseen extract for the mock exam 

Guided technique analysis 

Feedback from the examiners 

Introduction construction 

Rate the word 1 to 4

1. I do not know the word, and I have never seen it before. 

2. I've heard or seen the word before, but I'm not sure what it means. 

3. I know the word and can recognise and understand it while reading, but I probably wouldn't feel comfortable using it in writing or speech. 

4. I know the word well and can use it correctly in writing or speech. 

Eloquent 

Word of the day

Eloquent (adj) – expressing ideas clearly and in a way that influences people. Being able to be expressive, articulate or moving in speech or writing

Which character(s) that we have met in our literary explorations would you describe as eloquent? 

The priest gave such an eloquent sermon that most churchgoers were crying

Topics, concepts, key words 

1. What is the purpose of this extract? What feeling and information does the author want to convey? 
2. For each paragraph (three) write next to the paragraph how this paragraph helps to structure the main message of the extract.
   

Diction, descriptive language, adjectives 

• "forced his tottering limbs" 
• "leaden hand" 
  
• "demoniac clangour" 
  
• "the brazen fury" 
  
• "Sick, giddiness overcame him" 

Personification 

• "The brazen fury of the bells" 
  
• "Mouth up, mouth down, they brawled with their tongues of bronze" 
  
• "The bells were still sounding their frenzied call" 
• "it was a brute pain"

Sentence length and structure 

• "Winsey did not want to hear anymore" - simple sentence 
• He passed the sweating ringers and climbed again - up through the clock-chamber, piled with household goods, and up and on to the bell-chamber itself" - parenthetical remark, complex sentence 
  
• "His ear-drums were cracking; his senses swam away" coordinated - main clauses - semi-colon 
  

Simile, metaphor, comparison 

• "like the blows from a thousand beating hammers" 
  
• "shrill clangour was a raving madness, an assault of devils" 
  
• "as though his bones were turned to water" 
  
• "was like a sword in the brain" 

Alliteration 

• "drenched and drunken with noise" -plosive hard sound 
  
• "it rocked and reeled with the reeling of the bells" 
  
• "stunned and shaken" 
• "stabbing and shivering" 
  

sensory imagery 

• Auditory imagery " from a thousand beating hammers" 
  
• "Buffeted by the clamour" 
  
• "brazen crash and clatter there went one high note, shrill and sustained"  
  
• Tactile, kineasthetic  - "The belfry heaved and wheeled about him as the bells dipped and swung" 
  

enumeration, listing, repetition  

• "it was brute pain, a grinding, bludgeoning, ran-dan, crazy, intolerable torment" - asyndeton 
  
• "foot by foot, rung by rung" - repetition 
  
• "brazen fury ...through the brazen crash 
  
• "shrill, high, sweet, relentless note" asyndeton 
  
• "reeled with the reeling of the bells" - repetition 
  
• drunken with noise ... like a drunken man 

MPO

Multiple Paragraph Outline 

Complete the MPO by adding the thesis statement and the topic sentences 

Prose fiction

The name of the extract is stated

The author or originating source is given

The text type is clearly identified without elaboration

where the text appeared is stated (if known)

When it was produced is stated (if known)

The content is discussed: what does the text actually say (brief summary)

The intended audience/reader is stated (if definable) 

The purpose(s) is stated

The social, cultural and temporal context is addressed (if available)

The thesis: what you find most important about the text (without elaboration) (main idea/main theme)

The structure of your analysis is stated 

Introduction

Hook
The name of the extract	The Nine Tailors - extract
Author or source	Dorothy L. Sayers
Text type	Prose fiction - extract from a novel
where appeared	The Nine Tailors
when produced	1959
content discussed	This extract describes the physical experience of Wimsey, the protagonist, as he scales a belfry and ascends the roof whilst the bells are pealing.
intended audience	Readers who know Dorothy L. Sayers work or are interested in prose fiction
purpose	entertain/ to entertain the reader/ to increase tension
social cultural & temporal context	published in 1959 (British crime novelist)
Thesis statement
Plan of development