Key learning points

1. To write a description that shows rising tension you might open with an emotionally charged declarative sentence.
2. You might follow that with consecutive interrogative sentences that use personal pronouns.
3. You might then end on a repeated exclamatory fragment that finishes on an emotionally charged word.

Keywords

• Declarative - a sentence that makes a statement, provides a fact, offers an explanation or conveys information

• Interrogative - a sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark

• Exclamative - a statement that expresses strong emotion and typically ends with an exclamation mark

• Imperative - a sentence that gives a direct command or instruction

• Climax - the most intense, exciting or important point of something; the culmination

Common misconception