AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 model answer

This is a model answer that I have written for AQA English Language Paper 1, Question 5: Write a description based on this image. It is based on an image of a man stood on the very edge of some rocks, looking over a mountainous landscape. It models to pupils how to use many different language and structural features: different sentence types, paragraphing for effect, similes, metaphors, personification, the senses, adjectives, adverbs, pathetic fallacy, emotive language and how to use these to create a narrative using the image. I used this in the lesson by asking pupils to highlight and label the language and structural features used, thinking about the effect that they have, and also to model how to progress the narrative whilst including description. Students were then allowed to magpie 6 phrases or words for their own writing, and then had to plan and write their own descriptions of the image.