Learn how the strategy of exaggeration works to achieve humorous effects in a short story. You'll need a pen and paper or a device, and the notes you made in lesson 7.
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Strategies for humorous effect – exaggeration
Strategies for humorous effect – repetition
Learn how repetition works to achieve humorous effects in a short story. You'll need a pen and paper, a book or a device, and your notes from lesson 7.
Strategies for humorous effect – suspense
Deepen your understanding of the strategies, including suspense, that are used to achieve humour in a short story. You'll need a pen and paper, or a device, plus your work from lessons 7 and 12.
Strategies for humorous effect – plot tension
Deepen your understanding of plot tension and how it is used to achieve humour in a short story. You'll need a pen and paper or a device, and your work from the last lesson.
Strategies for humorous effect – emphasis
Learn how emphasis works to achieve humorous effects in a short story. You'll need a pen and paper or device and your notes from lesson 7.
Review and deepen understanding of theme
Further explore the narrative element of theme. You'll need pen, paper or a device to record your work.
Specific elements of narrative
Identify and examine narrative point of view and how this is used by authors when writing a short story. You'll need a pen and paper or a device to record your work.
Identify and examine stages of plot structure
Review and deepen your understanding of orientation, complication, resolution, climax, falling action, rising action. You'll need pen, paper or a device, notes from lessons 4, 6, 7, 17, and the story in lesson 16.
Specific elements of narrative
Identify and examine setting and how this is used by authors when writing a short story. You'll need a pen and paper or a device to record your work and notes from lesson 18.
Identify language choices for characterisation
Review and deepen your understanding of language choices to develop characterisation. You'll need pen, paper or device, notes from lessons 9, 10, 19 and the story in lesson 16.
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