Building characters
Analysing the language of characters in a literary text
Goals
- Understand some of the ways that writers use language to create characters
- Analyse the use of language in a literary text
Lesson Plan
- You could start by asking students to think about some of the ways that writers use language to create fictional characters. What makes a convincing character? What are some of their favourite characters from fiction, and why?
- Next, talk students through the first passage from Jekyll & Hyde.
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