descriptive language

Posted on May 10, 2021

You have read many short stories by different authors all using different techniques to hold your attention while you read.

Your job is to write a narrative (200 words minimum) describing an event that happened to you that had a beginning, a middle and an end.

Use at least a couple of the techniques below to make your story more interesting:

1) Use dialogue.

2) Develop your setting or mood with descriptive language that appeals to the senses.

3) Use metaphors and similes.

4) Develop character by showing how a person changes during the events in your story.

5) Use dramatic irony to enhance humour or tension in your story.

6) Develop your story using rising action.

7) Have a climax that resolves the events of the story. 

Write your story below.