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EDUQAS Poetry Anthology
Creative Task Bank 200 word challenge
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Creative writing should include:
The 200 word challenge! Write a piece of writing inspired by this image KEY FOCUS: sensory language Inspiration: The Manhunt Frozen Explore Blown Damaged Heart Picture Traced Unexploded Buried Nerve Close Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques
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Creative writing should include:
The 200 word challenge Write a love letter to your favourite meal. KEY FOCUS: First person perspective Inspiration: Sonnet 43 Love Depth Soul Feeling Grace Freely Purely Passion Faith Breath Life death Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques
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Creative writing should include:
The 200 word challenge You have just been imprisoned. How do you feel? KEY FOCUS: sentence variation and punctuation Inspiration: London Chart‘er’d Weakness Woe Cry Fear Mind-forg’d Hapless Blood Midnight Curse Blasts Plagues Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques Stuck for sentences? Try: A sentence that starts with a song lyric A sentence that starts with the last two words of the previous sentence A sentence four words long, then three, then one word A 3A sentence- starts with three adjectives
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KEY FOCUS: Sophisticated writer’s techniques Inspiration: The Soldier
The 200 word challenge You are the leader of a team. Write a motivational speech to inspire your team mates. KEY FOCUS: Sophisticated writer’s techniques Inspiration: The Soldier Only Rich Shaped Love Breathing Blest Heart Evil Eternal Dreams Peace Heaven Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques
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KEY FOCUS: narrative voice Inspiration: She Walks in Beauty
The 200 word challenge Write as the peacock, describing how unique and spectacular your appearance is to others. KEY FOCUS: narrative voice Inspiration: She Walks in Beauty Beauty Aspect Gaudy Impaired Grace Lightens Serenely Pure Eloquent Glow Innocent Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques
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Creative writing should include:
The 200 word challenge Write to describe this bookshop. KEY FOCUS: Writing to create atmosphere Inspiration: Living Space Just Parallel Balance Clutch Miraculous Rough Fragile Edge Slanted Gathering Faith Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques
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KEY FOCUS: narrative voice Inspiration: As Imperceptibly as Grief
The 200 word challenge You have lost your owner; write as the cat, including your thoughts and feelings KEY FOCUS: narrative voice Inspiration: As Imperceptibly as Grief Grief Lapsed Perfidy Sequestered Harrowing Without Escape Beautiful Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques
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Creative writing should include:
The 200 word challenge Write in the defence of something that you believe in. KEY FOCUS: writer’s techniques (persuasion) Inspiration: Cozy Apologia Exudes Hero Silver Free Business Hurricane Daydreams Talent Storm Satisfied Stolen Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques
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Creative writing should include:
The 200 word challenge Write a confession. KEY FOCUS: sentence variety to create tension Inspiration: Valentine Heart Promises Blind Grief Truthful Fierce Faithful Lethal Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques Stuck for sentences? Try: A one word sentence An inside outside sentence e.g. The coin was warm in my hand (my fear tightened my grip). A question A sentence starting with a verb (floating, wondering, cascading)
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Creative writing should include:
The 200 word challenge You are the rain; create a sense of sadness or loss within your narrative voice. KEY FOCUS: creating mood through narrative voice Inspiration: A Wife in London Vapour Waning Glimmers Flashed Fallen Thicker Flicker Fresh Burn love Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques
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Creative writing should include:
The 200 word challenge Write about a childhood memory from the child’s perspective KEY FOCUS: sensory language Inspiration: Death of a Naturalist Year Bubbles Watch Miss Walls Daddy Mammy Rank hand Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques
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Creative writing should include:
The 200 word challenge Write to describe a cruel boss/leader KEY FOCUS: Creating character through show, don’t tell Inspiration: Hawk Roosting Inaction Perfect Convenience Advantage Inspection Creation Sophistry Manners Assert permitted Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques Stuck for show? Try: Description of appearance- clothes or facial features Detailed movements- peering over glasses, rubbing chin, smoothing hair Description of speech and facial expression- growl, bellow, roar, smirk, sneer, retort
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Inspiration: To Autumn
The 200 word challenge Write to describe a perfect place. Zoom in on a specific object within your place. KEY FOCUS: setting Inspiration: To Autumn Close Conspiring Sweet Cease Seeks Winnowing Drows’d Patient Hours Clouds Sinking Skies Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques
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Creative writing should include:
The 200 word challenge Write a monologue as one of the people in this relationship. KEY FOCUS: punctuation Inspiration: Afternoons Fading Fall Hollow Young Free Lying Ruining Lovers Intent Unripe Pushing Side Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques Punctuation Perseverant? Try these: A rhetorical question Ellipsis in the middle of the sentence e.g. I’ve tried….but not enough Brackets e.g. Whilst I attempt to pay attention (I create the shopping list in my head whilst he talks), things are dull
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KEY FOCUS: Perspective Inspiration: Dulce et Decorum Est
The 200 word challenge You pass this paramedic on your way home. Describe your thoughts and feelings about what he may have experienced. KEY FOCUS: Perspective Inspiration: Dulce et Decorum Est Beggars Coughing Cursed Haunting Fumbling Clumsy Flound’ring Helpless Plunges Dreams Watch Hear Obscene Lie Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques
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KEY FOCUS: writing for purpose Inspiration: Ozymandias
The 200 word challenge Write to argue both sides of the argument: should celebrities expect to be remembered forever? KEY FOCUS: writing for purpose Inspiration: Ozymandias Vast Visage Passions Survive Lifeless Pedestal Remains Colossal Lone Far Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques
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Creative writing should include:
The 200 word challenge Write about a time that something was unfair. KEY FOCUS: sensory language Inspiration: Mametz Wood Wasted Relic Blown Breaking Reaching Working Broken Paused Tilted Dropped slipped Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques
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Creative writing should include:
The 200 word challenge Write as the iceberg! You want people’s respect. KEY FOCUS: perspective Inspiration: The Prelude Season Rapture Proud Cares not Confederate Resounding Idle Tumult Unnoticed Creative writing should include: Accuracy in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Punctuation variety: move beyond full stops and commas Sentence variety: simple, compound, complex Ambitious vocabulary: thesaurus use is encouraged Sophisticated writer’s techniques: metaphor, personification, rhetorical techniques
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