Read this VERY carefully. This task is SIMILAR to Task 25 but it is NOT the SAME.
With Task 25, you had to use a piece of music to inspire a narrative - a self-contained extract from a story. Atmosphere, plot, tension etc. were all important, and all had to be extracted from the music itself.
Task 26 is purely DESCRIPTION. Whilst what you write could appear in a much longer piece of fiction, it will work on its own as a single description - of a place, a (fictional) person or an object.
As with the best writing recently, I am looking for description which:
- makes creative but careful use of sonic devices such as rhyme and alliteration
- embraces the potential of figurative language (similes and metaphors) and personification to bring an image to life
- avoids cliche and pursues originality - of lexis (vocabulary) and syntax (sentence structure)
- is structured carefully and consistently, with a clear opening and a deliberate finish
As before, please listen carefully (and several times) to ALL 10 extracts - before you select the one which most powerfully makes you imagine the person/place/thing you will describe.
You can LISTEN to all this week's tracks here. Alternatively, once you have chosen one, I can email it to you directly so you can listen to it wherever and whenever you like - so just ask! :)
The deadline for this task - and this is NOT negotiable - is midnight on Saturday 7th June.
Good luck!
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