Key learning points

1. A dramatic account is likely to be full of emotion, danger and conflict.
2. We expect an account of an event to be fact based and significant.
3. When talking about our response to a text, it is important to reference details and explain how it affected us.
4. Analysing language means looking at what it suggests.
5. We an also link the writer’s choices to the wider themes and ideas.

Keywords

• Memoir - a first person written record of a person's own life and experiences

• Autocratic - demanding that people obey completely, without asking or caring about anyone else's opinions

• Surveillance - the careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army

• Encroaching - the act of gradually taking away someone else's rights, time, work or privacy

Common misconception