19. UNIQUE: CREATIVE WRITING: Crafting Your Own Direct Address LANG

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Section B of the language papers rewards you for skilfully ‘crafting’ linguistic devices.

DEFINITION
- Use of the first person pronoun (you, your) to speak directly to the reader/audience.
EFFECTS
- Grabs the reader’s attention.
- Makes the text feel personlised.
- Invites the reader to consider their own position on a topic.

‘You’ve been given a gift, Peter. With great power, comes great responsibility.’ – Spiderman
‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.’ – Shakespeare
‘I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.’ – Marting Luther King, I Have a Dream
‘I am standing in the spirit at your elbow.’ – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
‘We don’t want you’: Jack to Piggy – William Golding, Lord of the Flies
‘But you’re not what I thought you’d be….I thought I was making an angel!….everyone would love it- and look at you.’: Frankenstein to the Monster – Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
‘Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
What thou art promised; yet do I fear thy nature –’: Lady Macbeth reading a letter from Macbeth – William Shakespeare, Macbeth

adjectives	prepositions	nouns	verbs
Towering, bronze, white, fiery, impenetrable, shadowy, treacherous, frozen, slippery, ancient, forgotten, deafening, smooth, roaring, thorny, prickly, razor-sharp, wrinkled, soft, jagged, deadly, vicious, elephantine, new, modern, torn, dazzling, sleek, smooth, painful, fragile, tangled	By, of, in, outside, inside, through, around, beside	Snowflakes, carpet, darkness, fire, waterfalls, streams, blanket, valleys, arches, mist, ice, snow, leaves, earth, feet, graffiti, factories, love, hate, barbed wire, anger, village, city, houses, cars, talons, ocean, wall, atmosphere, proportions, appetite, peace, brilliance, belief, granite, silence, beauty, hope, greed, pride, misogyny, loyalty, justice, fear, corruption, carbon fibre, mind, stomach, hands, fists, knees, misery, grief, pain, despair, tears, sobs, failure, pressure, mind	Knotted, tangled, thundered, erupted, shimmered, sculpted, hidden, surrounded, split, swallowed, plummeted, veered, wound, sprawled, overlooked, shielded, crowded, shuffled, grabbed, curved, swung, spat, slammed, filled, devoured, forged, shivered, shuddered, thrashed, hobbled, buckled, slumped, welled, poured, spilled

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