Reading Skills – Fiction and Literary Texts: Evaluating a Writer’s Methods

Reading Skills – Fiction and Literary Texts: Evaluating a Writer’s Methods

This resource provides a clear explanation of how writers use language, structure, and characterisation to create meaning and impact in literary texts.

It explores key techniques used in fiction, how they affect readers, and methods for analysing and evaluating a writer’s craft.

Key features:

Detailed explanations of language techniques, including imagery, similes, metaphors, and personification

Overview of structural techniques such as narrative perspective, pacing, flashbacks, and chapter structure

Analysis of characterisation and how it conveys themes and emotions

Guidance on evaluating the effect of writer’s methods on the reader

Summary of key terms and definitions for easy reference

Includes an accompanying worksheet to reinforce and practise key concepts.