the language a writer uses to communicate their perspective or a story

Exploring unique narrative voices

English

'Alias Grace': forming opinions on characters

Emulating Atwood’s use of an untrustworthy character in ‘Alias Grace’

Conceptualising voice in fiction texts

‘The Yellow Wallpaper’: analysing character

'The Yellow Wallpaper': crafting voice

Exploring voice in ‘Klara and the Sun’

Emulating Ishiguro's use of an artificial voice in 'Klara and the Sun'

Comparing dystopian voices

Creating voice in our narratives

Planning outstanding narratives

Writing a narrative with a compelling voice

In 'Fiction: Inner Musings', pupils develop narrative writing skills. In 'Writing Masters', pupils experiment using language and structure to write interesting and creative texts.

In 'Fiction: Books that Changed My World', pupils explore how authors use language for effect in their writing. In 'Fiction: Inner Musings', pupils develop focus on using author's language choices to make nuanced evaluations about a text.

In this unit, pupils explore and practise emulating a range of different narrative voices. They explore narrative voice in 'Alias Grace', 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and 'Klara and the sun' before crafting their own narrative voices. At the end of the unit, they write a narrative with a compelling voice.

Fiction: inner musings

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

It is written from the perspective of a pet.

It is written from the perspective of a dead girl.

It is written from the perspective of Death.

What makes the narrative perspective in 'The Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold unique?

Match each sentence to the register being used.

Which might provide the most unique narrative voice in a story or novel?

"It's that new tiny human, it's led them to forget about me!" In this sentence, what makes it obvious that this is from a pet's perspective?

"I hold myself supremely blest—blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine." This example from 'Jane Eyre' uses which tone and register?

"I don't think you know enough about the topic to make a comment."

Which of these conveys a condescending tone?

"She put on her coat and left for dinner."

"That evening, I decided I would go out for dinner."

Which of these conveys a conversational register?

the point of a view a text is written from

a narrative written from the perspective of an animal

a narrative written from the perspective of the protagonist

Which of these is the most unusual narrative perspective?

Starter Quiz

What is tone?