Key learning points

1. Emotions can be different and shown in different ways, so descriptions must be chosen carefully
2. An emotion describes how someone is feeling
3. A character can feel different emotions at different points of a story
4. Including a range of adjectives to describe the same feeling stops repetition and makes writing more interesting
5. Adverbs can be used to show how someone feels when they do something, such as 'counts quietly' or 'cartwheels happily'.

Keywords

• Emotion - a feeling or mood

• Noun - a naming word

• Adjective - describes or adds detail to a noun

• Verb - a doing or being word

• Adverb - a word that describes or gives more information about a verb

Common misconception